Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

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

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

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

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

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.