The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

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

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

Ever wanted to can Spam?

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

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.