Urbana, Illinois
The Morrow Plots
The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.
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Urbana, Illinois
The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.
Brookfield, Illinois
It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Monticello, Illinois
The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.
Springfield, Illinois
When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.
Wilmette, Illinois
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.
Oak Brook, Illinois
Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.
Chicago, Illinois
The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Chicago, Illinois
Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Chicago, Illinois
Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Antonito, Colorado
An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.