Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Oklahoma City
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Oklahoma City? These 11 are the genuinely strange ones — Pierre Fauchard, 'Father of Modern Dentistry' Statue, Big Toothbrush and Toothpaste, Flaming Lips Alley and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Oklahoma City they'd never find on their own.
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Pierre Fauchard, 'Father of Modern Dentistry' Statue
A bronze statue of an 18th-century French dental surgeon stands guard outside the Oklahoma Dental Association…
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Big Toothbrush and Toothpaste
A roughly 12-foot metal toothbrush leans beside a 6-foot tube of squeezed-out toothpaste outside a pediatric…
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Flaming Lips Alley
A genuinely dingy back alley behind the ballpark, named in 2007 for OKC's own psychedelic rock band over cons…
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Will Rogers Gardens Gnome Houses & Fairy Doors
Tucked along the pathways of the historic Will Rogers botanical gardens are tiny handcrafted gnome houses and…
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Architectural DNA
A rusted spiral fire escape, salvaged from the demolished Marion Hotel, hangs suspended in midair between two…
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G&M Body Shop Giant Transformers (Optimus Prime & Bumblebee)
Body shop owner Mike McCubbin imported raw Transformer statues from Thailand, spent a year dismantling and re…
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The Chickasha Leg Lamp
A legitimately 50-foot fiberglass fishnet-stocking leg — modeled on A Christmas Story's iconic prop and linke…
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Miss America Statues at Oklahoma City University
Three life-sized bronze Miss Americas — Jane Jayroe (1967), Susan Powell (1981), and Shawntel Smith (1996) —…
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Hazmatt Sculpture
Tucked behind the chain-link fence of Norman's Household Hazardous Waste Facility, a 20-foot reclining figure…
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POPS 66
A 66-foot neon-lit soda bottle looming over Route 66, fronting a diner stocked with 700+ rare and exotic glas…
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Factory Obscura: Mix-Tape After Hours
Mix-Tape is a 6,000-square-foot immersive art maze built around emotions in music, with tunnels to crawl thro…