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This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

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

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

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

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

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

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.