Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

A eclectic collection of military memorabilia.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

An Airy Would-Be Solution to a Housing Shortage.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

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

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

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

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

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.