This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

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

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

The Real LegoLand.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

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

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

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

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

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.