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

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

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

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

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

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

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

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.