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

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

The metal bird, nicknamed "Sandy," stands nearly 40 feet tall and is an homage to the birds that migrate through North Dakota every year.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

The final resting place of the father of American beekeeping.

One of the oldest and tallest lighthouses still in service on Lake Michigan.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

A tiny 1857 chapel sits on top of a secluded, forested hill.

The property contains 37 preserved animal effigy mounds constructed by Native Americans between 800-1100.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

Built in France in the 1400s, this gothic chapel now resides at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.