A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

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

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

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

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.

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

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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