A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The world's longest known cave system.

This grave marks the final resting place of pioneer John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

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

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.