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

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

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

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

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

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

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

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

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.