A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

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

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

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

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

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

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

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

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

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 treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

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

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

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

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

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

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.