This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

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.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

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

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

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

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.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

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

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

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

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

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