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

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

This grave marks the final resting place of pioneer John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

This whimsical park encourages its visitors and wildlife to roam on and around the various works of art.

One of the largest collections of merchandise from the famous British sci-fi show can be found smack in the middle of Indiana.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

Colorful collection of antique musical oddities.

Along this stretch of Indiana roadway resides a giant insect composed entirely of scrap metal.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

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

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.