An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

One man's goal to be surrounded by color resulted in this enchanting assortment of avian abodes.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

This curious headstone is labeled simply as "The Queen."

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

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

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

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

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

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

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.