Places arf0810 Wants to Go

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The oldest functioning restaurant in the state of Illinois, operating since 1847.

A natural sandstone bridge nestled within a mature forest in southern Illinois.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

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

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

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

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.