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Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

Take a trip back in time at this retro cinema dating back to 1954.

Thousands of hats, pens, and pencils, hanging inside the walls of a former church.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

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

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.