Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

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

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

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.

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