The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

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

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

This quirky roadside attraction provides insight into Minnesota's logging history.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

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

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

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

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

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

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

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.