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

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

This former office building has been transformed into an immersive music venue and art space.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

The poet’s boyhood home is now dedicated to celebrating his life and legacy.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.