The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

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

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.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

The World's Largest Bull.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.