An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

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

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

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

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

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

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

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

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.