This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

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

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

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

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

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

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

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

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

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.