This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

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