Illinois Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Illinois. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Bloomington | Chicago | Peoria | Springfield
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Abingdon: Tallest Totem Pole East of the Rockies - Addison: Nike Missile Complex Remains
- Aledo: World's Largest Rhubarb
- Altamont: Giant Miller Lite Beer Can
- Alto Pass: Bald Knob Cross of Peace
- Alton: Lincoln-Douglas Debate Statues
- Alton: Miles Davis Statue
- Alton: Relics of the World's Tallest Man
- Alton: Robert Wadlow, World's Tallest Man
- Alton: Ruins of Civil War Military Prison
- Alton: The Piasa Bird
- Alton: The Soul Asylum
- Arcola: Ben Franklin and Broom
- Arcola: Birthplace of the Creator of Raggedy Ann
- Arcola: One and Only Hippie Memorial
- Arcola: World's Largest Antique Broom Collection
- Argonne: Site A/Plot M Atomic Marker
- Aroma Park: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Ashmore: World's Largest Lincoln
- Atlanta: American Giants Museum
- Atlanta: Happy Half-Wit Muffler Man
- Atlanta: Hot Dog Muffler Man
- Atlanta: J.H. Hawes Grain Elevator Museum
- Atlanta: Mattingly Automotive: Official Route 66 Mechanic
- Atlanta: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Auburn: Brick 66
- Aurora: Giraffe Bursts Through Roof
- Aurora: Isaac Squared: Swimming Stones
- Aurora: Lifesize Mastodon Statue
- Aurora: Mastodon Slide
- Aurora: Spartan Warrior
- Aurora: Wayne's World Car Replica
- Barrington: Baby Face Nelson's Last Gunfight
- Batavia: Broken Symmetry: Particle Physics
- Batavia: City of Windmills
- Batavia: Dress-Up Oil Tank Cow
- Batavia: Fermilab Pi Power Poles
- Batavia: Man With A Fish Head
- Batavia: Mary Todd Lincoln's Sanitarium Bed
- Batavia: Particle Accelerator Buffalo Herd
- Batavia: Particle Physics Playground
- Batavia: Self-Made Man
- Batchtown: Uniroyal Gal: Pirate
- Belleville: National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows
- Belvidere: 1967 Tornado Disaster Monument
- Belvidere: National Sewing Machine Company Foundry Ladle
- Benton: Charlie Birger Gallows and George Harrison Artifacts
- Benton: Franklin County Garage Museum
- Benton: Giant George Harrison Cut-Out
- Benton: Marker: First Beatle in America
- Benville: Grave of Robert Earl Hughes, World's Heaviest Man
- Berwyn: Mini-Spindle: Car Kebab
- Berwyn: Muffler Man: Chicken Wing, Cigar
- Berwyn: World's Largest Laundromat
- Bloomington: Abe Breaks Up A Fight Statue
- Bloomington: Animal Hospital Line-Up
- Bloomington: Bear Tree
- Bloomington: Bedrock and Steel House
- Bloomington: Concrete Giantess
- Bloomington: Courthouse Dome
- Bloomington: Front Yard Civil War Monument
- Bloomington: Large Head On A Roof
- Bloomington: Longest Epitaph In Granite
- Bloomington: Miller Park Artillery
- Bloomington: Park Bench Abe Lincoln
- Bloomington: Prairie Aviation Museum
- Bloomington: Sit with Adlai Stevenson II
- Bloomington: Wizard Of Oz Dorothy Grave and Statue
- Blue Island: Doughboy Cannon
- Bourbonnais: Childrens Memorial to Amtrak Crash
- Braidwood: Braidwood Zoo Animal Sculptures
- Braidwood: Nine-Foot-Tall Guitar-Playing Elvis
- Braidwood: Polk-a-Dot Drive In
- Braidwood: Superman and Phone Booth
- Breese: Cholera Cross
- Broadwell: Pig Hip Restaurant Memorial Rock
- Brookfield: Big Bull
- Brookfield: Trachodon from NY World's Fair
- Brookfield: World's Largest Bronze Gorilla
- Brownstown: Yard Art with Trucks
- Brussels: Small Jail
- Buncombe: Yard Skull
- Bunker Hill: Lincoln Points at Kneeling Liberty
- Burbank: Frankenmufflerman
- Burr Ridge: Parachute Martyr Memorial
- Cahokia: Air and Space Museum: Spacesuits and Underwear
- Cairo: River Merge Observation Deck
- Calumet City: Scale Model Smiley Water Tower
- Calumet City: Smiley Face Water Towers
- Cambridge: Jesus in Cowboy Boots Tombstone
- Carbondale: Dungeons and Dragons Park (Castle Park)
- Carbondale: Pyramid of King Tut the Dog
- Carbondale: The Bucky Dome
- Carmi: Big John: Grocery Clerk
- Carol Stream: Giant Jukebox Entrance
- Carthage: Lincoln Casket, Two-Headed Pig
- Casey: 15-Foot-High Barber Pole
- Casey: 16-Foot-Long Taco
- Casey: Big Things in a Small Town Workshop
- Casey: Giant Antlers
- Casey: Giant Bird Cage
- Casey: Giant Bookworm
- Casey: Giant Mailbox
- Casey: Giant Mouse Trap
- Casey: Giant Pencil
- Casey: Giant Yardstick
- Casey: Minion
- Casey: World's Largest Golf Club
- Casey: World's Largest Golf Tee
- Casey: World's Largest Knitting Needles
- Casey: World's Largest Pitchfork
- Casey: World's Largest Pizza Slicer
- Casey: World's Largest Rocking Chair
- Casey: World's Largest Teeter Totter
- Casey: World's Largest Truck Key
- Casey: World's Largest Twizzle Spoon
- Casey: World's Largest Wind Chime
- Casey: World's Largest Wooden Shoes
- Cave-In-Rock: Cave-In-Rock: River Pirates
- Centralia: Coal Mine Explosion Museum
- Centralia: Downtown Musical Bell Tower
- Champaign: Big Cheesy Noodle
- Champaign: Giant Copper Chief
- Champaign: Sit with Roger Ebert
- Charleston: 1864 Riot Mural
- Charleston: Abraham Lincoln on a Log
- Charleston: Grace the Dress-Up Shark
- Chatsworth: Horrible Train Wreck Happened Here
- Chenoa: Bouncy Horse Gallop
- Cherry: Cherry Mine Disaster Mass Grave
- Chesterville: Grave of the Chesterville Witch
- Chester: Only Sherlock Holmes Statue in the USA
- Chester: Poopdeck Pappy
- Chester: Popeye Museum
- Chester: Rough House: Popeye Character
- Chester: Statue of Alice the Goon
- Chester: Statue of Bluto
- Chester: Statue of Castor Oyl and Bernice the Whiffle Hen
- Chester: Statue of Cole Oyl
- Chester: Statue of Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, and the Jeep
- Chester: Statue of Popeye
- Chester: Statue of Sea Hag and Bernard the Vulture
- Chester: Statue of Stinger the Yellow Jacket
- Chester: Statue of Wimpy
- Chestnut: Geographic Center of Illinois
- Chicago Heights: Cow With a Chef's Hat
- Chicago: 24-Foot-Tall Gaudy Gold Statue
- Chicago: Agora: Forest of Rusty Walking Torsos
- Chicago: Alley Where John Dillinger Was Gunned Down
- Chicago: Assassinated Mayor Cermak Mausoleum
- Chicago: Atomic Chain Reaction Monument
- Chicago: Batcolumn
- Chicago: Begin Route 66 Sign
- Chicago: Big Bull on Roof
- Chicago: Big Heads on Pillars
- Chicago: Big Monster Door
- Chicago: Big Teeth, Toothbrush, Tooth Fairy
- Chicago: Billy Goat Tavern - Cheeseborger Cheeseborger
- Chicago: Birthplace of Walt Disney
- Chicago: Blind Love, Three Arms
- Chicago: Bob Newhart Statue
- Chicago: Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita Statues
- Chicago: Busy Beaver Button Museum
- Chicago: Cadillac Encased in Cement
- Chicago: Chicago in Miniature
- Chicago: Chrome Bumper Gorilla
- Chicago: Clown Lips Doorway
- Chicago: Crown Fountain - Spraying Faces
- Chicago: Cube of 1 Million 1 Dollar Bills
- Chicago: Cubs Fans Forever Burial Wall
- Chicago: Eastland Disaster Plaque
- Chicago: End Route 66 Sign
- Chicago: Eternal Flame
- Chicago: Eyeglasses Muffler Man Indian
- Chicago: Famous Rocks of the Tribune Tower
- Chicago: Father Marquette with Swastikas
- Chicago: First Kiss Spot of the Obamas
- Chicago: Fort Dearborn Massacre Monument
- Chicago: Fountain Of Time
- Chicago: Front Yard Artillery
- Chicago: Ghost Rider - Skeleton on Motorcycle
- Chicago: Giant Busted Clock
- Chicago: Grave in a Junkyard
- Chicago: Grave of Mr. Speedy Mail
- Chicago: Great Northern Migration Monument
- Chicago: Harry Caray: Faces In His Pants
- Chicago: Henry Darger's Room
- Chicago: Hill Street Blues Police Station
- Chicago: Hubcab Yard Art
- Chicago: International Museum of Surgical Science
- Chicago: Keith Haring: Big and Green
- Chicago: Klairmont Kollections Museum
- Chicago: Large Mortar and Pestle
- Chicago: Man-Eaters of Tsavo
- Chicago: McDonald's Global Menu Restaurant
- Chicago: Michael Jordan Statue
- Chicago: Monument to Jack Brickhouse, Famous Announcer
- Chicago: Monument to the Fascist Sky King
- Chicago: Night Stalker Kolchak's Office
- Chicago: Obama's Barber Chair, Encased in Plexiglass
- Chicago: Oldest Monument In Chicago
- Chicago: Our Fore Father's Hands
- Chicago: Oz Park - "Wizard of Oz" Statues
- Chicago: Recycled McKinley, Was Columbus
- Chicago: Robin Williams Mural
- Chicago: S.S. Eastland Disaster Memorial
- Chicago: Salt Stain Mary
- Chicago: Sculpture of a Dirty Pile of Snow
- Chicago: Sign: Geographic Center of Chicago
- Chicago: Site of the Murder Castle
- Chicago: Site of the St Valentine's Day Massacre
- Chicago: Sliced Human Bodies, Cow Eyeball Dissection
- Chicago: Statue of Death: Grim Reaper
- Chicago: Stone Caveman
- Chicago: Superdawg Drive-In
- Chicago: The Bean
- Chicago: The Ledge - 1,353 Feet Straight Down
- Chicago: The Pilgrim: Hooded Statue
- Chicago: The S--t Fountain
- Chicago: The Shameless House
- Chicago: Tilt!
- Chicago: Time Traveling Coffee Shop
- Chicago: Towering Tomb of The Little Giant
- Chicago: U-505 German Submarine
- Chicago: Vertical Map of Chicago River
- Chicago: Viking Leif Erickson Statue
- Chicago: Wall of Bad Art
- Chicago: Weber Grill Restaurant - Giant Grill
- Chicago: Windy City: Propeller Junk Art
- Chicago: Wizard of Oz Home
- Chicago: Wolfy's Vienna Beef Sausage
- Chicago: Woolly Mammoth: Curiosity Cabinet
- Cicero: Bobby Hull Statue
- Cicero: Large Hot Dog Topped With Fries
- Collinsville: Early 1900s Bull Durham Sign
- Collinsville: World's Largest Catsup Bottle
- Cornell: Friendship Shoe Fence
- Covell: Charles Lindbergh Crash Site #2
- Crestwood: Missile in the Park
- Crystal Lake: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Crystal Lake: Muffler Man - Indian
- Cullom: Farm Town Jet Fighter
- Danville: Brick People - Danville USA
- Danville: Lindley Sign Post Forest
- Danville: Wall of Hometown Celebrities
- Darien: World's Largest Religious Wood Carving
- DeKalb: Barbed Wire History Exhibit, Little House
- DeKalb: The Grotesque - Ill-Fated College Gargoyle
- Decatur: Big Large Mouth Bass
- Decatur: Chevrolet Hall Of Fame Museum
- Deerfield: Minifig Vault
- Des Plaines: Giant Golf Ball and Club
- Des Plaines: Meals Delivered by Train
- Des Plaines: Robert Wadlow Shoes
- Diamond: Diamond Mine Disaster Monument
- Dixon: Fake Berlin Wall
- Dixon: Horsey Ronald Reagan
- Dixon: John Deere Historic Site
- Dixon: Only Statue of Lincoln in Uniform
- Dixon: Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home
- Dixon: Ronald Reagan's Lifeguard Plaque
- Dixon: Tank, Jet, Helicopter
- Downers Grove: Big Boy Statue and Gas Station Replica
- Downers Grove: Sears Catalog Home Capital of the World
- Durand: Tractor on a Silo
- Durand: Tree Made of Steel Wheels
- Dwight: Cardiff Memorial: Mine Explosions
- Dwight: Restored 1930s Texaco Gas Station
- East Moline: Tour World's Largest Farm Equipment Factory
- East Peoria: Ice Cream Cone Building
- East Peoria: Quonset-Hut-Style Church
- East Peoria: Rooster in a Top Hat
- Edwardsville: 25-Foot-Tall Geriatric Walker
- Edwardsville: Big T-Bone Steak
- Edwardsville: Geodesic Dome Mini-Earth
- Edwardsville: Only Genuine Pair of Robert Wadlow's Shoes
- Effingham: America's 2nd Largest Cross
- Effingham: Duct Tin Man
- Effingham: My Garage Museum
- Effingham: Restored 1920 Gas Station
- Elburn: Larsen's Christmas Lights
- Eldorado: Big John - Grocery Clerk
- Eldred: Stag Beer Grain Silo
- Elizabeth: Shark Statue
- Elk Grove Village: Elk Pasture - Town Elk Herd
- Ellsworth: Wind Farm Lookout Platform
- Elmwood Park: Large Radio Flyer Wagon
- Elsworth: Baseball Water Tower
- Elwood: Ammo Plant Dead Statue
- Eureka: Berlin Wall Slab
- Eureka: Ronald Reagan Museum, Berlin Wall Slab
- Evanston: American Toby Jug Museum
- Findlay: Goat Tower of Baaa
- Forest Park: Giant Wind-Up Teeth
- Forest Park: Memorial to Circus Train Wreck Dead
- Forest Park: Zombie Dad
- Forrest: Jerry's Hat Museum
- Forrest: Wabash Turntable
- Fox River Grove: Castle Replica Home
- Freeport: Douglas Debates Lincoln
- Freeport: Little Wrigley Field
- Freeport: Pretzel City USA
- Fulton: Dutch Windmill
- Fulton: Fishing Dutchman
- Fulton: Heritage Canyon
- Galena: John Martinson's West Street Sculpture Park
- Galena: Mrs. Butterworth Statue of First Lady Julia Grant
- Galena: Scarlett's Green Dress Curtains
- Galva: Carpet Viking Giant: King Orry
- Gardner: Streetcar Diner
- Gardner: Two-Cell Jail - Shutterbugs Welcome
- Gays: Two-Story Outhouse
- Geneva: 1893 World's Fair Viking Ship
- Geneva: Easy Chair Grave
- Geneva: Fabyan Old Dutch Windmill
- Glen Ellyn: Bronze Roadrunner
- Glen Ellyn: Diseased Organs Display
- Glenview: Stuffed Moray Eel in Appliance Store
- Granite City: Car Wash Fake Tree Cell Tower
- Granite City: Old Chain of Rocks Route 66 Bridge
- Granite City: Ten-Person Swing
- Greenville: Museum of Initiation Pranks
- Gridley: Telephone Museum of Gridley
- Griggsville: Purple Martin Capital of the Nation
- Gurnee: Planes, Trains And Automobiles Motel
- Hartford: Lewis and Clark Confluence Tower
- Harvard: Harmilda the Cow, Milk Day Festival
- Harvard: Ravenstone Castle Bed & Breakfast
- Hebron: Basketball Water Tower
- Herod: Herod Cave and Fairy Cliff Cafe Ruins
- Herod: Sassy the Bigfoot
- Highland Park: Ferris Bueller Garage Scene Location
- Highland Park: Giant Hawk Head and Nest
- Hillsboro: Abe Lincoln with a Sore Back
- Hillsboro: Gettysburg Address Time Capsule
- Hillside: Al Capone's Grave
- Hinsdale: Transparent Woman - Valeda
- Homewood: Largest Collection of Richard Haas Murals
- Hooppole: Rolle Bolle Rosary
- Hopewell: Peter Toth Indian Head
- Hudson: Gas Station Memorabilia
- Hudson: World's Largest Square Knot
- Hutsonville: Hutson Massacre Memorial Mini-Town
- Inverness: Al Capone's Silo Hideout
- Iuka: Mr. Rooster, Built of Scrap Iron
- Jacksonville: Metal Vent Man
- Joliet: Bluesmobile on a Stick
- Joliet: Dancing Blues Brothers
- Joliet: Gigantar: Giant Electric Guitar
- Joliet: Old Joliet Prison
- Joliet: Site of World's First Dairy Queen
- Joliet: Stand on Brick 66
- Joliet: Statue of Liberty Replica
- Justice: 20-Foot-Tall Pope
- Justice: World's Largest Stained Glass Window
- Kankakee: Big Flowerpot
- Kankakee: Dairy Queen Franchise #1
- Kankakee: Giant Abe Lincoln
- Kankakee: Helicopter In a Cornfield
- Kaskaskia: Liberty Bell of the West
- Kent: Blackhawk War Monument - Gravedigger Abe
- Kewanee: Hog Capital of the World
- Lemont: Touch A Piece Of The First Nuclear Reactor
- Lerna: Grave of Lincoln's Dad
- Lerna: Lincoln Log Cabin, But Not Abe Lincoln's
- Lerna: World's Fastest Soda Machine
- Lexington: Crazy Presidential Elephant
- Libertyville: Muffler Man and Bessie the Cow
- Liberty: Mystery Baby-Making Boulder
- Lincolnshire: Par-King Miniature Golf
- Lincolnwood: Novelty Golf and Bunny Hutch
- Lincoln: Honest Abe Courthouse
- Lincoln: Lincoln Watermelon Monument
- Lincoln: Old Neon: Tropics Dining Room
- Lincoln: Phone Booth on a Roof
- Lincoln: The Mill: Route 66 Museum
- Lincoln: Tiny Church
- Lincoln: World's Largest Covered Wagon and Big Lincoln
- Livingston: Giant Donald Trump
- Livingston: Muffler Man
- Livingston: Pink Elephant Mall: Outdoor Retro
- Lockport: Lockport Powerhouse
- Lockport: Young Lincoln Landed Here
- Loda: Jail in Town Park
- Lombard: Weber Grill Restaurant - Giant Grill
- Long Grove: Sock Monkey Museum
- Lynwood: Giant Man Made of Plastic Barrels
- Lyons: Explorers Marquette and Joliet in Steel
- Macomb: Living Lincoln Topiary Monument
- Macon: Muffler Man - Soda Jerk
- Makanda: Buck Rogers-esque Water Tower
- Makanda: Monument to Boomer, 3-Legged Hero Dog
- Makanda: Non-Gyrating Gyrator
- Makanda: Rainmaker Art Grotto
- Makanda: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Malta: Mighty Mouse and Elephant
- Mapleton: Wizard of Oz Garden
- Marseilles: Southwest Asia Memorial Wall
- Marshall: 1918 Brick National Road
- Marshall: World's Largest Gavel
- Martinsville: Home of the Moonburger - Moonshine Store
- Martinsville: World's Largest Horseshoe
- Matanzas Beach: The Boat Lady
- Mattoon: The Burger King
- Mattoon: World's Largest Bagel Parade
- McCook: Vegas Sign: Fabulous McCook
- Melrose Park: Kiddieland Amusement Park Sign
- Metropolis: Big John - Grocery Clerk
- Metropolis: Birdman of Alcatraz Grave
- Metropolis: Fort Massac - Aaron Burr's Plots to Conquer Mexico
- Metropolis: Kryptonite
- Metropolis: Lois Lane in Bronze
- Metropolis: Super Museum
- Metropolis: Superman Statue
- Midlothian: Most Haunted U.S. Cemetery?
- Milford: Nazi Buzz Bomb
- Mokena: Huge Black and White Cow
- Moline: Miracle Bridge Pillar Mary
- Monmouth: Bagpiper Statue
- Morton: Stainless Steel Tree
- Mount Carroll: Raven's Grin Inn
- Mount Morris: Illinois Freedom Bell
- Mount Olive: Grave of Mother Jones
- Mount Olive: Soulsby's Service Station
- Mount Pleasant: Grave of King Neptune the Pig
- Mount Pleasant: Rest Stop Memorial to King Neptune the Pig
- Mount Vernon: Pose with Stovepipe Hat Abe
- Mount Vernon: Road Sign Art
- Mount Vernon: Uniroyal Gal
- Murphysboro: Big Muddy Monster
- Naperville: Cat in the Hat Statue
- Naperville: Darth Naper
- Naperville: Dick Tracy Statue
- Naperville: Fairy Shops and Eateries
- Naperville: Green Eggs and Ham Statue
- Naperville: Laughing Lincoln
- Naperville: Moser Tower and Millennium Carillon
- Naperville: Spike People: Train Disaster Memorial
- Naperville: The Grinch (and Max) Statue
- Naperville: Whale of a School
- Nashville: Tiny Church - The Traveler's Chapel
- Nauvoo: Erik: Carpet Viking HS Mascot
- Newton: Burl Ives in Granite
- Newton: Minions in Metal
- Newton: Mug Tree
- Niles: Booby's Sign
- Niles: Leaning Tower of Niles
- Niles: Sit with Lincoln on a Couch
- Nilwood: Turkey Tracks on Route 66
- Normal: Carl: Ice Cream Muffler Man
- Normal: Sprague's Super Service: Restored 1930s Gas Station
- Norridge: Grave of JFK's Assassin's Assassin: Jack Ruby
- North Aurora: Store Filled with Oddities
- North Riverside: Uncle Pete The Scotsman
- Norway: Agricultural Crash Monument
- Norway: Viking Memorial
- Oak Brook: Headless Mammoth, Giant Bird Nest
- Oak Forest: King Tin Man
- Oak Lawn: Big Chief: World's Largest Cigar Store Indian
- Odell: 1932 Standard Oil Filling Station
- Oglesby: Peter Toth Giant Indian Head
- Oglesby: Woody the Root Beer Man
- Olney: Auto Parts Family
- Olney: Birthplace Of Solar Power
- Olney: Home of the White Squirrels
- Olney: White Squirrel Souvenirs
- Oquawka: Norma Jean, Elephant Killed By Lightning
- Oregon: Black Hawk, the Rock River Colossus
- Oregon: Indian with a Fish Head
- Ottawa: Boy Scout Founder Grave Monument
- Ottawa: Lincoln vs. Douglas Fountain
- Ottawa: Peter Toth Big Head
- Ottawa: Shoe Tree
- Ottawa: Statue of the Radium Girl
- Ottawa: Volvo Island
- Palatine: Miniature Golf in a Funeral Home
- Pana: Giant Hand with Painted Nails
- Park Forest: Rail Fan Park
- Park Forest: The Chinese House
- Pekin: Ice Cream Cone with Eyeballs
- Peoria Heights: Big Lincoln Head
- Peoria Heights: Tower with Large Woodpecker
- Peoria: Lincoln Points To A Line
- Peoria: Milt, the MG Car Planter
- Peoria: Mini St. Louis Gateway Arch
- Peoria: Scale Model of the Solar System
- Peoria: Statue of Richard Pryor
- Peoria: Uniroyal Gal: Vanna Whitewall
- Peoria: Wheels O' Time Museum
- Peru: Sapp Bros. Pot of Coffee Sign
- Peru: Star Trek Vulcan Hand
- Petersburg: Grave of Lincoln's Sweetheart
- Piasa: The Piasa: Monstrous Mascot
- Plainfield: Tornado Victim Memorial
- Plano: Plano's 4,000 lb. Bomb
- Plano: Welcome to Smallville Flag Mural
- Polo: Barnacopia Agricultural Museum
- Pontiac: Abe Lincoln Hair Strands
- Pontiac: Burma Shave Signs
- Pontiac: Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame and Museum
- Pontiac: Pistol-Shaped Building
- Port Byron: 30-Foot-Tall Old Fashioned Bicyclist
- Port Byron: Tug Fest - East Side of Mississippi River Tug-of-war
- Princeton: Red Covered Bridge
- Princeton: Underground Railroad Hidey-Hole
- Quincy: Grave of USA's First African-American Priest
- Rantoul: Hardy's Reindeer Ranch
- Rantoul: Missile
- Rantoul: World Champion Punkin Chunkin
- Rend Lake: Golf Ball and Tee Water Tower
- River Grove: Hala-Kahiki Tiki Bar
- Riverdale: Light Bulb Water Tower
- Roanoke: Flintstones Car and Biplanes
- Rochelle: Railroad Intersection, Hobo Fire Pit
- Rochelle: Vince The Pizza Guy
- Rock Island: Atomic Cannon
- Rock Island: Black Hawk: Big Metal Sign
- Rock Island: Jake and Elwood Blues Brothers
- Rock Island: Rex the Loyal Grave Dog
- Rockford: "Gertrude" the Guernsey Cow
- Rockford: Beyer Field: Home of the Rockford Peaches
- Rockford: Big Abraham Lincoln Bust
- Rockford: Home of the Sock Monkey
- Rockford: Replica Liberty Bell
- Rockford: Rockmen Guardians
- Rolling Meadows: Puppet Opera in Focus
- Romeoville: Wacky Old Route 66 Restaurant
- Rondout: Largest Train Robbery in U.S. History
- Roscoe: Historic Auto Attractions
- Roselle: Pharmacy Museum in a Drug Store
- Rosemont: Rose Water Tower
- Russell: Russell Military Museum
- Salem: Pollard's Collection
- Sandwich: Ladies Room Jail Cells
- Sandwich: Teddy Roosevelts' Train Car
- Savanna: Savanna Army Depot
- Schaumburg: Half-Buried Giant Woman
- Schaumburg: Medieval Times
- Scott AFB: Air Force Air Park
- Seneca: LST Memorial
- Shelbyville: Best Man Mobile Wedding Chapel
- Shelbyville: Dishwasher Monument
- Shelbyville: Freedom Square
- Silvis: Hero Street USA Monument
- South Barrington: Pumpkin on Silo, Seasonal Hungry Dinosaur
- South Elgin: Fox River Trolley Museum
- Springfield: 30-Foot-Tall Skinny Abe Lincoln Statue
- Springfield: 9/11 Memorial with Pittsburgh Misspelled
- Springfield: Abe Lincoln Pixel Mural
- Springfield: Abe Lincoln Totem Pole
- Springfield: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
- Springfield: Car Bumper Deer
- Springfield: Carpet Spartan HS Mascot
- Springfield: Cozy Dog Drive In: Birthplace of the Corn Dog
- Springfield: Defiant Tomb Of Mr. Accordion
- Springfield: Departure Point Of The Donner Party
- Springfield: Farm and Zoo Animal Statues
- Springfield: Green Elephant
- Springfield: Illinois Firefighter Memorial
- Springfield: Lauterbach Tire Muffler Man
- Springfield: Lincoln Funeral Train Monument
- Springfield: Lincoln's Tomb and Lucky Nose
- Springfield: Mahan's Gas Station
- Springfield: Muffler Car Parts People
- Springfield: Pearson Museum
- Springfield: Pinky: Elephant with Martini
- Springfield: Race Riot Memorial
- Springfield: Route History: Green Book Museum
- Springfield: Santa Anna's Leg
- St. Anne: Caboose on a Lawn
- St. Charles: Humpty Dumpty in Art Park
- St. Charles: Sculpture with Puns
- St. Elmo: Teepee, Big Buffalo
- Staunton: Henry's Ra66it Ranch
- Stewardson: Giant Bull
- Stickney: Reverse Relief Jesus
- Stockton: Pizza Man
- Stone Park: Tiny Vatican
- Streamwood: Car Wash Extruding VW Beetle
- Streator: Statue of the Coffee Pot Lady
- Streator: Tributes to Pluto Discoverer
- Summit: Statue of Emmett Till's Mom
- Sycamore: Statue of Mr. Pumpkin
- Tampico: 12-Year-Old Ronald Reagan
- Tampico: Birthplace of Ronald Reagan
- Taylorville: Abe Lincoln and Pig Statue
- Taylorville: JFK in a Graveyard, But Not His Grave
- Taylorville: Monument to Kay the Elephant
- Teutopolis: Monastery Museum
- Towanda: Dead Man's Curve
- Troy Grove: Birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok
- Union: Illinois Railway Museum: Largest in North America
- University Park: Exhausted Paul Bunyan
- Urbana: College Lincoln's Lucky Nose
- Urbana: Cyber-Woman Engineer
- Urbana: Diss-Connections
- Urbana: Woolly Mammoth
- Vandalia: Abe Lincoln Reading Newspaper
- Vandalia: Gateway Arch Replica
- Vandalia: Kaskaskia Dragon
- Vandalia: Madonna of the Trail
- Vienna: Home of the Big Bike
- Villa Park: Animals of Safari Land
- Volo: Volo Museum: Bonnie and Clyde Death Car
- Wadsworth: Golden Pyramid House
- Wapella: 1955 Ford in Barn Roof
- Washington Park: Patriotic Hot Dog
- Washington: Bronze Footprints Where Lincoln Walked
- Washington: Giant Lincoln and Perry Como
- Watseka: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Waukegan: Big Onan Man with Garage
- Waukegan: Ray Bradbury Rides a Rocket
- Wedron: Charles Lindbergh Crash Site #1
- Wenona: Coal Mine Car Monument
- Wenona: F-84F Thunderstreak
- Westport: Lincoln Enters Illinois Monument
- Wheaton: Billy Graham Center Museum
- Wheaton: DuPage County Hall of Fame
- Wheaton: Perry Mastodon Exhibit
- Wheaton: Site of World's First Radio Telescope
- Wheaton: Tolkien's Desk: An Unexpected Location
- Wheaton: Windmill House
- Wheeling: SuperDawg II with Extra-Large SuperDawgs
- White Hall: Monument to the Schoolteacher Tornado Martyr
- Willow Hill: Grave of Burl Ives
- Willowbrook: Del Rhea's Chicken Basket
- Wilmette: Bahai House of Worship
- Wilmington: Gemini Giant: Space Age Muffler Man
- Winnetka: Home Alone House
- Woodlawn: Elvis Museum
- Woodridge: Blues Brothers And Bluesmobile
- Woodstock: Groundhog Day B&B
- Woodstock: Groundhog Day Movie Town
- Woodstock: Groundhog Day Puddle Plaque
- Woodstock: Orson Welles and Dick Tracy Tributes
- Woodstock: Shoe Tree
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Amboy: Chair Made of Trees
- Arcola: Rockome Gardens
- Arlington Heights: Grandt's Rocket
- Atlanta: Palm's Grille Cafe - Route 66
- Aurora: Corvette Popping Through Building
- Bartlett: Muffler Man
- Belleville: Giant Lady Shoe
- Benton: Hard Day's Nite B&B and Beatles Museum - Closed
- Berwyn: Berwyn Route 66 Museum
- Berwyn: Smoking Mummy
- Berwyn: Spindle - Cars on a Spike
- Bloomington: Poppy Plane Crash Memorial
- Bloomington: Tree Carved Grave of Old Hoss Radbourne
- Champaign: Human Skeleton, Hairball, Magic Shop
- Chicago: Al Capone Museum
- Chicago: American Police Museum
- Chicago: Creepy Crouching Figure
- Chicago: Johnson Wax Turtle
- Chicago: Leaning Wall Werewolves
- Chicago: Museum of Holography
- Chicago: Noble Horse Theatre presents "Quadrille"
- Chicago: Paul Bunyan Head, Museum of Science and Industry
- Chicago: Stained Glass Museum
- Chicago: The Silver Palm: Railroad Car Restaurant
- Chicago: Vitamin Vault Walgreens
- Chicago: Walk Thru Heart
- Chicago: Ziggy, Elephant with Issues
- Crystal Lake: Man Made of Mufflers Mailbox
- Crystal Lake: Muffler Man - Lumberjacks
- Danville: Shoe Tree
- Des Plaines: Golf Road Trout Farm - Fisherman Statue
- Des Plaines: McDonald's Store No. 1
- Downers Grove: Large Wooden Woman
- Durand: Large Cow Holding a Steak
- Essex: Jack Barker's Metal Menagerie
- Evergreen Park: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Evergreen Park: Snackville Junction - Meals by Train
- Gardner: Al Capone Hangout
- Golconda: Lightning Rod Jesus
- Grafton: Fin Inn - Dine While Looking at Fish
- Granite City: Clown Head
- Highland Park: Shoe Tree
- Homer Glen: Food Store with Animal Skulls, Bear Skin
- Hoopeston: Giant Corn Stalk
- Joliet: Muffler Man - Left Field Louie
- Kankakee: Plastic Pipe Robot
- Kewanee: Live Otters in a Bank
- Lincoln: Big Ball Of String
- Lisle: Giant Trolls of Thomas Dambo
- Mattoon: Ice Cream Cone-Shaped Stand
- Melrose Park: Elephant Statue
- Melrose Park: McD's Performing Moon - Mac Tonight
- Metropolis: Americana Hollywood Museum
- Midlothian: Sonny Bono's Bobcat Vest
- Moline: Hotel Polar Bear
- Monroe: Kapotas Sculptures - Lils Acres
- Mount Vernon: Miniature Washington Monument Replica
- Newton: Bigfoot Grill Burgers
- Palatine: Spine Carved From Dead Tree
- Peoria: Lady Rapunzel and Savior
- Peoria: The Hubcap House
- Pingree Grove: Giant Colonial Soldier and Wooden Chair
- Pontiac: Sidewalk Shark
- Pontiac: Walldog Museum
- Quincy: Tree Resembling Jesus Holding a Lamb
- Rantoul: Missile and Aircraft Outdoor Exhibit
- Rantoul: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Rock Island: Shark Statue
- Rockford: Time Museum
- Rockford: Warshawsky Cartoon Muffler
- Roseville: Muffler Man - Starvin' Marvin
- Schaumburg: Barbeque Grill for a Giant
- Springfield: Lincoln Ledger
- Springfield: Museum of Funeral Customs
- Springfield: Shea's Gas Station Museum
- St. Charles: Al Capone's Hideaway and Steakhouse
- Union: Donley's Wild West Town
- Urbana: Pollinatarium: Bees and Bats
- Wauconda: World's Largest Public Collection of Postcards
- West City: Big John
- Williamsville: Hilarious Route 66 Gas Station
- Wilmington: Patriotic Metal Figures
- Woodhull: Max Nordeen's Wheels Museum
- Yale: Mug Tree
