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This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

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.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.