A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

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

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

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.