rivers made overlapping US 60 and 62 briefly through Illinois more practical than directly connecting Missouri and Kentucky. Cairo Regional Airport provides general aviation service to the city. The closest airports with regular service are Barkley Regional Airport and Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. The airports are approximately 23 miles and 26 miles away, respectively. Landmarks and points of interest Magnolia Manor is a postbellum manor, built by the Cairo businessman Charles A. Galigher in 1869. It is a 14-room red brick house which features double walls intended to keep out the city's famous dampness with their ten-inch airspaces. Inside the home are many original, 19th-century furnishings. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 17, 1969. The house is operated as a Victorian period historic house museum by the Cairo Historical Association. Other points of interest include: Fort Defiance Park Gem Theatre The Hewer, a 1902 public sculpture by George Gray Barnard Cairo Custom House & Post Office The Riverlore A. B. Safford Memorial Library In popular culture Filmmakers Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan's feature-length documentary Between Two Rivers (2012) is about the social, economic and environmental problems faced by Cairo. Cairo was the original destination for Huck and Jim in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as they planned to paddle up the Ohio River to obtain freedom for Jim. They drifted past Cairo by mistake and ended up in the slave state of Arkansas instead. Twain also noted Cairo in his non-fiction Life on the Mississippi. Charles Dickens visited Cairo in 1842 and was unimpressed with what he saw as a disease-ridden backwater. It became the model for the town of Eden in his 1843–44 novel Martin Chuzzlewit. The musician Stace England produced a concept music CD called Greetings From Cairo, Illinois (2005), inspired by the city's turbulent history. In the Disney Channel series So Weird episode 58 season 3 episode 19, an Egyptology museum in the town of Cairo, Illinois, turns out to be inhabited by a reanimated mummy. Sports Cairo had its own minor-league baseball team (variously known as the Egyptians, Champions and Giants) in the Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League from 1903–06, 1911–14 and 1922–24. The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League held their annual spring training camp in Cairo from 1943–1945, due to travel restrictions imposed by Major League Baseball during World War II. The town of Cairo is known