Peoria, Illinois
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This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.
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Peoria, Illinois
This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.
Arcola, Illinois
This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.
Gardner, Illinois
This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.
Staunton, Illinois
This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.
Chicago, Illinois
A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.
Atlanta, Illinois
While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.
East St. Louis, Illinois
Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Mattoon, Illinois
The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.
Vandalia, Illinois
Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.
Mountain Township, Illinois
In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.
Schaumburg, Illinois
The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.
Chicago, Illinois
The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.
Brookfield, Illinois
What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.
Ashmore, Illinois
This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.
Chicago, Illinois
Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.
Chicago, Illinois
This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A science teacher's dream.
Chicago, Illinois
What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.
Chicago, Illinois
Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.
Chicago, Illinois
All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.
Wilmette, Illinois
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.
Chicago, Illinois
A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.