Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

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

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

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

A stone face watches over the river.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

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

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

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

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

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

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.