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

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.