Totem Pole Park, Oklahoma

An unusual park with a dozen brightly painted and sculpted totem pole sculptures made of concrete. It is the work of Ed Galloway, a former teacher at a nearby orphanage, who retired to this small farm property in 1937. He began work that year on the largest structure on site, which he completed 11 years later, when it was 90 feet tall. There are chambers inside the concrete tower, which was called the "largest totem pole in the world." He died in 1962, and much of his work at the site fell into disrepair. Preservationists arrived in the 1990s, and the sculptures repaired and repainted. It is now an officially recognized historic site. Though Ed Galloway said he made all these things just as something to do, Totem Pole Park is another landmark in the Cowboys and Indians identity of Oklahoma.