This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

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

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

Profile of a sleeping person 4km long in 250m high cliffs.

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

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

The world's longest known cave system.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

A heartwarming message to those entering and departing Music City from above.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.