The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

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

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

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

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A science teacher's dream.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

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

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

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

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

A Bibliophile's Dream.