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

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

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

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

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

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

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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

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

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

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.