With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

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

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

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

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

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

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

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

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

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

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.