Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

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

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

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

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

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.

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

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

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

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

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

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

The museum houses one of the world's largest collections of glass paperweights.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

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