This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

Thousands of hats, pens, and pencils, hanging inside the walls of a former church.

Take a trip back in time at this retro cinema dating back to 1954.

An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.

An Illinois prairie preserve where the real show begins after sunset.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

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

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

The inconspicuous grave of the University of Illinois' first president is just steps from the main quadrangle.

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

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

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

A 30-foot-tall goat tower in central Illinois is home to a herd of Swiss ungulates.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

The final resting place of the hero of Air Florida Flight 90 known as "the man in the water."

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

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

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

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