The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.

This tiny site in Iowa, part of a patchwork national wildlife refuge, is home to ancient flora and fauna.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

A piece of solitude and tranquility in the heart of East Saint Paul.

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

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

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

A Studio on the Fringes of the Northeast Art District.

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

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

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

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

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

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.