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

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

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

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

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

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

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

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

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

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

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

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

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

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.