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

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

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

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

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

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.

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

Ever wanted to can Spam?

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

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

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