Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

The smallest country in the world.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

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

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

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

A palatial art deco restroom.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.