A stone face watches over the river.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

At a mile long, the Fort Madison Bridge is the largest double-decker swing-span bridge in the world.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

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

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

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

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.

A memorial dedicated to a traveling circus elephant killed by a lightning strike in 1972.

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

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

The oldest operating hotel in Illinois enjoys a historic (and some say haunted) past.

Dozens of large steel sculptures fill this two-acre park outside a former blacksmith's studio.

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

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

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.