Essex, Illinois
Jack Barker's Metal Art Sculpture Garden
Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.
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Essex, Illinois
Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.
Springfield, Illinois
The history of funerals and funerary customs.
Des Plaines, Illinois
Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.
Chicago, Illinois
Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.
Alto Pass, Illinois
Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.
Chicago, Illinois
The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.
Chicago, Illinois
A European-style bath house in Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.
Chicago, Illinois
Pizza with a side of fine art.
Chicago, Illinois
What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.
Chicago, Illinois
In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.
Chicago, Illinois
One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Springfield, Illinois
The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.
Niles, Illinois
Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.
Bloomington, Indiana
If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.
Bloomington, Indiana
A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.
Mooresville, Indiana
This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."
Evansville, Indiana
Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.
Bedford, Indiana
One-layer pyramid in Indiana.