Things to do in Oklahoma
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Ataloa Lodge Museum
Bacone College's Ataloa Lodge Museum, east of town on US 62, is renowned for artifacts that include Hopi and Navajo kachina dolls and pottery.
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Cherokee Heritage Center
The excellent Cherokee Heritage Center features Native American-led tours through a re-creation of a pre-European contact woodland village.
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Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame
Tulsa's beautiful Union Station is filled with sound again, but now it's melodious as opposed to cacophonous. During the first half of the 20th century, Tulsa was at literally at the crossroads of American music with performers both homegrown and from afar. Learn about greats like Charlie Christian, Ernie Fields, Sr and Wallace Willis in detailed exhibits. For most of the year there are Sunday concerts – often featuring inductees and played in the once-segregated grand concourse at 4pm.
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Paseo Arts District
The Paseo Arts District isn't much more than Paseo Dr itself, but there are several art galleries and boutiques in the Spanish colonial buildings.
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Boston Avenue United Methodist Church
TheBoston Avenue United Methodist Church, rising at the end of downtown is an exceptional example of the art-deco architecture.
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Crystal Bridge
Crystal Bridge, a seven-story conservatory, contains plants from every continent except Antarctica amid the 17-acre Myriad Botanical Gardens.
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Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum
The story of America's worst incident of domestic terrorism is told at this poignant museum, which avoids becoming mawkish and lets the horrible events speak for themselves. The outdoor Symbolic Memorial has 168 empty chair sculptures for each of the people killed in the attack (the 19 small ones are for the children who perished in the day-care center).
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Stage Center
This funky, hamster-house-looking building has two theaters and a cabaret room hosting contemporary plays, musicals and other events.
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Cain's Ballroom
Rising rockers grace the boards where Bob Wills played Western swing in the '30s and the Sex Pistols caused confusion in 1978 (check the wall Sid Vicious punched a hole in).
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Philcade Building
The Philcade Building, with its glorious T-shaped lobby is an exceptional example of the art-deco architecture.
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Gypsy Coffee House
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An all-around great hangout in the Brady District with couches, board games and live music (open mike Tuesdays, bands weekends).
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Red Rooster Bar & Grill
Classic OKC dive bar with a cheap beer-only line-up (and good burgers) and enough cigarette smoke to give nonsmokers the habit.
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Prayer Tower
With a 200ft UFO-like tower at its heart, the campus of Oral Roberts University is as idiosyncratic as its late televangelist founder.
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Bricktown Ballpark
To make a complete night of it in the district, watch the Triple A Redhawks play at Bricktown Ballpark.
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War Eagle Floats
Outfitters, including War Eagle Floats, offer two-hour to two-day trips, campgrounds, cabins and more.
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Dot's Café
Tiny Dot's Café is a good place to at least hum - if not sing - 'Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'.'
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Oklahoma National Stockyards
Oklahoma National Stockyards,is the world's largest stocker and feeder cattle market.
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State Fair Park
State Fair Park hosts frequent horse- or rodeo-related events. (The state fair itself is a dud.)
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art displays good 20th-century American art.
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State Capitol
Built in 1917, but only got its dome in 2002.
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Full Circle Bookstore
A superb independent bookstore that stocks many Route 66 books and has a cafe.
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Rodeo Opry
Catch country-and-western wannabes weekly in Stockyards City.
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Visitor Center
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Urban Tulsa Weekly
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Sid's
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