This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

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

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

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

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.