A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

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

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

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

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

Expansive and colorful studio of Minneapolis art-star, Doug Padilla.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

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

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

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

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

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

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

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.