Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

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

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

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

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

This graveyard is home to the so-called "Witch's Circle."

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

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

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

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

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

Take a trip back in time at this retro cinema dating back to 1954.