The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.

Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

From burial ground bocce ball court.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

The oldest remaining frame residence in Minneapolis.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

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

A Studio on the Fringes of the Northeast Art District.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.