This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

The tunnel that runs beneath this former inn was once a hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

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

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.