This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

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

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

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

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

How did the 110-foot limestone statue cross the road?

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.