Auburn, Indiana
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum
A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.
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Auburn, Indiana
A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.
Fortville, Indiana
The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.
Peoria, Illinois
This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.
Lincoln, Illinois
The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.
Evanston, Illinois
The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.
Wilmington, Illinois
This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.
Roscoe, Illinois
This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.
University Park, Illinois
A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.
Palatine, Illinois
Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.
Batavia, Illinois
Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.
Martinsville, Illinois
Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Alto Pass, Illinois
Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.
Rockford, Illinois
The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.
Linn, Missouri
The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.
Sumner, Missouri
This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."
Cuba, Missouri
The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.
Joplin, Missouri
A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Springfield, Missouri
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.
Columbia, Missouri
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Weskan, Kansas
A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.
Cawker City, Kansas
It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.