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

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

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

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

The Real LegoLand.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

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

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

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.

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

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

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.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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

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

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

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.