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

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.