An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

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

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

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

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

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

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This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

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

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

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

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

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.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.