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World's Largest Small Electric Appliance Museum

Diamond, Missouri

World's Largest Small Electrical Appliance Museum

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

Memorial garden

Carthage, Missouri

Precious Moments Chapel and Gardens

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

Behold, the king of terrible lizards.

Springfield, Missouri

Dragon Rock

Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!

Call NOW! Art Installation

Springfield, Missouri

Call NOW! Art Installation

A phone booth that combines public art and climate change awareness.

World's Largest Fork

Springfield, Missouri

World's Largest Fork

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Hubble Replica

Marshfield, Missouri

Hubble Space Telescope Replica

In Edwin Hubble's hometown, a scale model of the groundbreaking telescope that was named in his honor.

Sponsored By Visit Missouri
The park officially opened with a lighting ceremony on May 9, 2025.

St. Robert, Missouri

Route 66 Neon Park

Vintage neon signs illuminate highway history.

Sponsored By Visit Missouri
Former World's Largest Rocking Chair

Cuba, Missouri

Former World's Largest Rocking Chair

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Illinois Woodhenge

Fairmont City, Illinois

Illinois Woodhenge

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

Monks Mound at Cahokia

Collinsville, Illinois

Cahokia Mounds

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Collinsville's catsup bottle

Collinsville, Illinois

World's Largest Catsup Bottle

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Phone Booth on a Roof

Lincoln, Illinois

Phone Booth on a Roof

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

The Lincoln Watermelon Monument

Lincoln, Illinois

Lincoln Watermelon Monument

This colorful monument commemorates a little-known story from the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Railsplitter Covered Wagon

Lincoln, Illinois

Railsplitter Covered Wagon

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

American Giants Museum

Atlanta, Illinois

American Giants Museum

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

The carved tree trunk.

Bloomington, Illinois

Dorothy's Grave

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

Statue

Bloomington, Illinois

Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn's Grave

A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.

Commemorative Marker
Permanently Closed

Normal, Illinois

Abandoned Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s School

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

Mr. Accordion's defiant headstone.

Springfield, Illinois

Mr. Accordion's Grave

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

The entirety of the front yard of Jack Barker's workshop. (Anne Remy/Atlas Obscura)
Permanently Closed

Essex, Illinois

Jack Barker's Metal Art Sculpture Garden

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

2 Celled Jail

Gardner, Illinois

2 Celled Jail

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

Decatur & State Line Railway Bridge Piers

Manteno, Illinois

Decatur & State Line Railway Bridge Piers

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

Joliet Iron and Steel Works

Joliet, Illinois

Joliet Iron and Steel Works (Joliet Iron Works Park)

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

Midewin  was the first national tallgrass prairie in the United States.

Wilmington, Illinois

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

On the site of a former Army ammunition plant, bison now roam a restored sea of grass.

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