20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

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

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

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

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

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.

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

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

A stone face watches over the river.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

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

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

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

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

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

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.

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

Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.