A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

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

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

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

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

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

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

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

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

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

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

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

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

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

Storage units with a wartime past.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.