Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

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

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

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

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

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

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.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

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

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

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

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.