An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

An old tree that is the final resting place for many pair of shoes.

Nestled in Onondaga State Park, over 100 canoes carefully stacked in a replica of the famous standing stones.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

A collection of soda memorabilia that spans decades.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.