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

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

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

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

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

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

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

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.