At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.