This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

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

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

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.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

A tribute to a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1793 and escaped over two years later.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

The world's longest known cave system.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in this humble cabin.

It's believed the famed author's parents once used this spring to gather water.