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The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

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

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.