A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

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

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

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

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

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.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.