Monticello, Illinois
Robert Allerton Park
The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.
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Monticello, Illinois
The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.
Mattoon, Illinois
The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.
Atlanta, Illinois
A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.
Burnett, Wisconsin
The property contains 37 preserved animal effigy mounds constructed by Native Americans between 800-1100.
Ashmore, Illinois
This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Neillsville, Wisconsin
The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.
Chicago, Illinois
An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.
Chicago, Illinois
A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.
Kirksville, Missouri
Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.
Union Township, Missouri
A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.
Cuba, Missouri
The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.
Mountain, Wisconsin
Once part of an extensive network of fire towers, this is one of the few remaining in this Wisconsin forest.
Neillsville, Wisconsin
This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.
Joiner, Arkansas
On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.
Humboldt, Kansas
This historical marker is all that remains of Octagon City, Kansas, a failed vegetarian utopia.
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Durant, Oklahoma
No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.
Mansfield, Missouri
Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.
South West City, Missouri
Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.
Spiro, Oklahoma
Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.
Poteau, Oklahoma
Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."