Amana, Iowa
Ronneburg Restaurant
What was once a communal kitchen now serves heaping portions of hearty German fare.
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Amana, Iowa
What was once a communal kitchen now serves heaping portions of hearty German fare.
Amana, Iowa
Step back in time while shopping inside this local store.
What Cheer, Iowa
No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.
Gladbrook, Iowa
A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.
Norman, Oklahoma
The largest collection of political commercials in the world.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.
Hillside, Illinois
Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.
Carbondale, Illinois
The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.
Forrest, Illinois
Thousands of hats, pens, and pencils, hanging inside the walls of a former church.
Macomb, Illinois
Over 120 years ago, the original boardgame that inspired Monopoly was invented in this small Illinois town.
Bloomington, Illinois
A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.
Chester, Illinois
A museum and gift shop in a small Illinois town commemorates the work of E.C. Segar and the local figures on whom he based his characters.
Atlanta, Illinois
A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.
Alton, Illinois
A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.
Windsor, Illinois
A 30-foot-tall goat tower in central Illinois is home to a herd of Swiss ungulates.
Lincoln, Illinois
The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.
Benton, Illinois
The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.
Chicago, Illinois
G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.