A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

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

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

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

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.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

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

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.