A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

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

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

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.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

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

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.

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

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

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

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

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.