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
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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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: American Oddities Museum -
Alton: Lincoln-Douglas Debate Statues -
Alton: Miles Davis Statue -
Alton: Robert Wadlow, World's Tallest Man -
Alton: Ruins of Civil War Military Prison -
Alton: The Piasa Bird -
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: Big Viking -
Atlanta: Forgotten Coal Mine -
Atlanta: Halfwit Head: Former Paintball Target -
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: Muffler Man: Phillips 66 Cowboy (The Captain) -
Atlanta: Palm's Grille Cafe Building - Atlanta: Phillips 66 Cowboy
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Atlanta: Smiley Face Water Tower -
Atlanta: Texaco Big Friend: Former Home Giant -
Atlanta: Uniroyal Gal: Lumi the Pie Lady -
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 with Chicken Wing -
Berwyn: World's Largest Laundromat -
Bloomington: Abe Breaks Up A Fight Statue -
Bloomington: Animal Hospital Line-Up -
Bloomington: Bear Tree -
Bloomington: Concrete Giantess and Whale Shark -
Bloomington: Courthouse Dome -
Bloomington: Front Yard Civil War Monument -
Bloomington: House on Garling: Industrial Yard Art -
Bloomington: Large Head On A Roof -
Bloomington: Longest Epitaph In Granite -
Bloomington: McLean County Museum of History: Park Bench Abe -
Bloomington: Miller Park Artillery -
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: Bull on a Roof -
Brookfield: Trachodon from NY World's Fair -
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 -
Cairo: Future City -
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 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: Bull 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 Fire Survivor Water Tower -
Chicago: Chicago in Miniature -
Chicago: Chrome Bumper Gorilla -
Chicago: Clown Lips Doorway -
Chicago: Cowlileo: Stargazing Cow -
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: 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: 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: Henry's Drive-In: Hot Dog Topped With Fries -
Collinsville: Cahokia Mounds -
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 -
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: Ambler's Texaco Station -
Dwight: Cardiff Memorial: Mine Explosions -
Dwight: Crazy '80s Cars -
East Dundee: Santa's Village Azoosment Park -
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: Geodesic Dome Mini-Earth -
Edwardsville: Herbie The Hereford -
Edwardsville: Only Genuine Pair of Robert Wadlow's Shoes -
Edwardsville: West End Service Station and Visitor Center -
Effingham: America's 2nd Largest Cross -
Effingham: Duct Tin Man -
Effingham: My Garage Museum -
Effingham: Restored 1920 Gas Station -
Eldorado: Big John: Grocery Clerk -
Eldred: Stag Beer Grain Silo -
Elizabeth: Shark Statue -
Elk Grove Village: Big Silver Pinball -
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 -
Findlay: Goat Tower of Baaa -
Flora: Flora B&O Depot -
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: King Orry: Former Carpet Viking -
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 -
Geneva: Tiki-Head Mailbox -
Gillespie: Goat of Route 66 -
Glen Ellyn: Bronze Roadrunner -
Glen Ellyn: Diseased Organs Display -
Glenview: Stuffed Moray Eel in Appliance Store -
Godley: Illinois Route 66 Mining Museum -
Granite City: Car Wash Fake Tree Cell Tower -
Granite City: Earl: Mechanic Muffler Man -
Granite City: Fork in the Road -
Granite City: It's Electric: Neon Sign Park -
Granite City: Old Chain of Rocks Bridge -
Granite City: Rusty: Sledgehammer Muffler Man -
Grayslake: Gracie Belle: Big Cow -
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 -
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 -
Jonesboro: Lincoln-Douglas Debate Statues -
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 -
Lemont: Lemont Massacre Mural -
Lemont: Touch A Piece Of The First Nuclear Reactor -
Lerna: Grave of Lincoln's Dad -
Lerna: Lincoln Log Cabin, But Not Abe Lincoln's -
Lexington: Crazy Presidential Elephant -
Libertyville: Bessie the Big Cow -
Libertyville: Muffler Man and Bessie the Cow -
Liberty: Mystery Baby-Making Boulder -
Lincolnshire: Par-King Miniature Golf -
Lincolnwood: Novelty Golf and Bunny Hutch -
Lincoln: Lincoln Watermelon Monument -
Lincoln: Phone Booth on a Roof -
Lincoln: Postville: Honest Abe Courthouse -
Lincoln: Route 66 Donut -
Lincoln: The Mill: Route 66 Museum -
Lincoln: Tiny Church -
Lincoln: Vintage Neon: Tropics Dining Room -
Lincoln: World's Largest Covered Wagon and Big Lincoln -
Litchfield: Ariston Cafe -
Livingston: Giant Donald Trump -
Livingston: Muffler Man -
Livingston: Pink Elephant Mall: Outdoor Retro -
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: Big Marquette and Joliet in Rusty Steel -
Lyons: Hofmann Tower -
Macomb: Living Lincoln Topiary Monument -
Macomb: Lizzie Magie: Monopoly Inventor -
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: Lincoln and Lions -
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 Big Boy -
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 Grove: Shrine of All Saints -
Morton: Parking Lot Bull -
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 -
Murphysboro: Big Muddy Monster -
Murrayville: Propane Tank Watermelon -
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 -
Palatine: Spine Carved From Dead Tree -
Pana: Giant Hand with Painted Nails -
Park Forest: Rail Fan Park -
Park Forest: The Chinese House -
Pekin: Ice Cream Cone with Eyeballs -
Pekin: Strange Everett Dirksen Statue -
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 -
Peotone: Tractor Monument -
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 -
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 -
Princeton: Walk of Fame -
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: Vince The Pizza Guy -
Rock Island: Atomic Cannon - Rock Island: Black Hawk: Big Metal Sign
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Rock Island: Rex the Loyal Grave Dog -
Rockford: Beyer Field: Home of the Rockford Peaches -
Rockford: Big Abraham Lincoln Bust -
Rockford: Gertrude the Guernsey Cow -
Rockford: Home of the Sock Monkey -
Rockford: Magical Thinking Bunny -
Rockford: Replica Liberty Bell -
Rockford: Rockmen Guardians -
Rolling Meadows: Puppet Opera in Focus - Romeoville: White Fence Farm Giant Chicken
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Rondout: Largest Train Robbery in U.S. History -
Roscoe: Historic 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: Barbeque Grill for a Giant -
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 -
Shiloh: UFO Alien and Sighting Plaque -
Shirley: Funk's Grove Maple Sirup Farm -
Silvis: Hero Street USA Monument -
South Barrington: Pumpkin on Silo, Seasonal Hungry Dinosaur -
South Elgin: Fox River Trolley Museum -
Sparta: Iron Acres -
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: Ace Sign Co. Sign Museum -
Springfield: Big Ron: Former Big John -
Springfield: Car Bumper Deer -
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: Home of Abe Lincoln - Springfield: IL State Fair Muffler Man Sculpture
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Springfield: Illinois Firefighter Memorial -
Springfield: Junkyard Lincoln -
Springfield: Lauterbach Tire Muffler Man -
Springfield: Lincoln Funeral Train Monument -
Springfield: Lincoln Slept Here a Lot -
Springfield: Lincoln's Tomb and Lucky Nose -
Springfield: Mahan's Phillips 66 Filling Station -
Springfield: Muffler Car Parts People -
Springfield: Pearson Museum -
Springfield: Pinky: Elephant with Martini -
Springfield: Route 66 Experience: Metal Muffler Man -
Springfield: Ruined Chimneys Massacre Memorial -
Springfield: Santa Anna's Leg -
Springfield: Shea's Gas Station Museum -
Springfield: Southeast Spartan: Former Carpet Viking -
Springfield: Tattooed Bob's Big Boy -
Springfield: Tavern Where the Lincolns Lived -
St. Anne: Caboose on a Lawn -
St. Charles: Ghoulish Mortals Store -
St. Charles: Sculpture with Puns -
St. Elmo: Big Buffalo and Teepee -
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: Pollinatarium: Bees and Bats -
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 -
Waterloo: Illinois Caverns -
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 -
Williamsville: The Old Station -
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: Private Elvis Museum -
Woodridge: Blues Brothers And Bluesmobile -
Woodstock: Groundhog Day Bed and Breakfast -
Woodstock: Groundhog Day Movie Town -
Woodstock: Groundhog Day Puddle Plaque -
Woodstock: Orson Welles and Dick Tracy Tributes -
Woodstock: Shoe Tree -
Worth: Muffler Man: Golfer
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...
- Alton: Historic Museum of Torture Devices
- Alton: Relics of the World's Tallest Man
- Amboy: Chair Made of Trees
- Arcola: Rockome Gardens
- Arlington Heights: Grandt's Rocket
- 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
- Casey: World's Largest Pizza Slicer
- Champaign: Human Skeleton, Hairball, Magic Shop
- Chicago: Al Capone Museum
- Chicago: American Police Museum
- Chicago: Creepy Crouching Figure
- Chicago: Johnson Wax Turtle
- Chicago: Klairmont Kollections Museum
- Chicago: Leaning Wall Werewolves
- Chicago: Museum of Holography
- Chicago: Noble Horse Theatre presents "Quadrille"
- Chicago: Paul Bunyan Head, Museum of Science and Industry
- Chicago: Skelly: Skeleton on Motorcycle
- 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
- 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
- Edwardsville: 25-Foot-Tall Geriatric Walker
- Edwardsville: Big T-Bone Steak
- Elburn: Larsen's Christmas Lights
- Essex: Jack Barker's Metal Menagerie
- Evanston: American Toby Jug Museum
- Evergreen Park: Guardian Muffler Man
- 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
- Granite City: Ten-Person Swing
- Highland Park: Shoe Tree
- Homer Glen: Food Store with Animal Skulls, Bear Skin
- Hoopeston: Giant Corn Stalk
- Iuka: Mr. Rooster, Built of Scrap Iron
- Joliet: Muffler Man: Left Field Louie
- Kankakee: Plastic Pipe Robot
- Kewanee: Hog Capital of the World
- Kewanee: Live Otters in a Bank
- Lerna: World's Fastest Soda Machine
- Lincoln: Big Ball Of String
- Lisle: Giant Trolls of Thomas Dambo
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Lockport: Lockport Powerhouse - 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
- Mount Vernon: Uniroyal Gal
- Newton: Bigfoot Grill Burgers
- 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: Octave Chanute Air Museum
- Rantoul: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Rock Island: Shark Statue
- Rockford: Time Museum
- Rockford: Warshawsky Cartoon Muffler
- Roseville: Muffler Man - Starvin' Marvin
- Springfield: Lincoln Ledger
- Springfield: Museum of Funeral Customs
- St. Charles: Al Capone's Hideaway and Steakhouse
- Staunton: Henry's Ra66it Ranch
- Union: Donley's Wild West Town
- Wauconda: World's Largest Public Collection of Postcards
- West City: Big John
- Wilmington: Patriotic Metal Figures
- Woodhull: Max Nordeen's Wheels Museum
- Yale: Mug Tree


