The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

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

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

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

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

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

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

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

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

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

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.