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One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

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

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

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

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

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

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

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

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

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

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

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

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

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

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

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.