Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

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

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

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

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

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

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

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

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

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

A palatial art deco restroom.