Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

For posterity, a singular achievement: 3,780 hours of dancing.

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

This quirky roadside attraction provides insight into Minnesota's logging history.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

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

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

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

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

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

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

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

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

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

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

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.