An underground wonderland in Iowa.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

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

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

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

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

This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.

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

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

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

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

A lone bronze figure stands in memory of historic a 19th century land grab.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

A chimney and a plaque are all that remains of a logging camp that once cleared out a large swath of Minnesota's old-growth forest.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.