A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

World's most expensive home.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

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.

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

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

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

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

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.