The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

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

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

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

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

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

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

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

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

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.