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The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Before the Vatican, there was Dolton: This is the childhood home of the first American pope.

A blufftop prairie and limestone cliff with 30-mile views across two great rivers and prime bald eagle territory.

Explore an underground labyrinth of miniature railroads.

On the site of a former Army ammunition plant, bison now roam a restored sea of grass.

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

A sprawling historic mansion with connections to a notable industrial and publishing dynasty.

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

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

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

This 4,000-acre restored grassland in northern Illinois is home to a range of native flora and fauna, from clovers to plovers to a herd of bison.

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

The last remnants of a lakeside airport that was bulldozed overnight by the mayor of Chicago.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.