Traditionally, the gift for a first anniversary is something paper.

For a second anniversary, it's cotton, a third anniversary, it's leather.

But what about your 30-second anniversary?

If you're Hugh Davis and his wife's out to Davis, you go big.

A 20-foot tall, 80-foot-long, two-story blue whale on the side of Route 66.

That kind of big.

I'm Dylan Therese, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's

strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

And after the break, we're taking you to Katusa, Oklahoma, where we find out the

back story of what just might be the greatest anniversary gift ever.

That's after this.

A few years ago, I was in Tulsa, and there was a place that I knew I had to go.

It was a little bit out on Route 66, but it was this incredible, amazing location.

This two-story whale sort of perched over the edge of a pond with this little smiling

mouth, and I had always wanted to see it.

It is just this iconic object, this iconic building, the blue whale of Katusa.

But to understand why it's there, how it got made, and the beautiful love story behind

it, you first need to understand Hugh and Zelda Davis.

So basically, Hugh Davis began as the park director for the Tulsa Zoo.

That's Liz Huggleby.

She is a native of Katusa, Oklahoma, and the current director of the blue whale of Katusa.

He was actually one of the first directors in, I believe, the 40s, and after he retired

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