This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

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

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.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

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

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

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

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

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

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

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

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

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

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.