Fairmont City, Illinois
Illinois Woodhenge
Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.
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Fairmont City, Illinois
Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.
Collinsville, Illinois
Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.
Staunton, Illinois
This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.
Livingston, Illinois
Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.
Carlinville, Illinois
Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.
University Park, Illinois
A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.
Holland, Michigan
The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.
London, Ontario
The "birthplace of insulin," where Sir Frederick Banting realized the hormone could save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.
Saint Thomas, Ontario
The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".
Alvinston, Ontario
This towering bee statue is a tribute to Ontario's first meadery and a century-old honey producer.
Port Huron, Michigan
Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.
Toledo, Ohio
This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.
Erie, Michigan
This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.
Toledo, Ohio
A 30-foot stack of piano keys memorializes one of the greatest keys players in jazz history.
Mansfield, Ohio
Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.
Columbus, Ohio
The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.
Dublin, Ohio
The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
Powell, Ohio
A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.
Carroll, Ohio
See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Columbus, Ohio
Three bronze deer sculptures relax along the Scioto Mile.
Columbus, Ohio
Just outside the Ohio Supreme Court sits a testament to justice.
Columbus, Ohio
Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.
Columbus, Ohio
A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.