Vishnu Springs is a ruined resort town located in a river valley in west-central McDonough County, Illinois.

Throughout the 1880s, groups as large as 2,000 people gathered in a western Illinois river valley in what is now Vishnu Springs.

According to legend, the natural spring water was said to have had medicinal properties capable of solving a variety of physical and psychological ailments.

Some time in the 1880s, the land was named after the Hindu god Vishnu because of the supposed healing power of the water.

Screams of terror interrupted the sound of the joyful children riding the carousel as the supervisor was crushed to his death.

By the 1920s, most of the businesses had closed, large numbers of guests stopped visiting, and the town could be considered abandoned.