The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

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

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

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

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

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

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

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

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

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

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

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

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

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

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

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