A roadside statue store in rural Minnesota with quirky displays.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

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

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

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

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

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

A surprising collection of bronze faces beneath a bridge in Loveland.