Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

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

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Fragments of a massive unfinished sculpture sit near the main quad of the University of Illinois.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

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

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

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.