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

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

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

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

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

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

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

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

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.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

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

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

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

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

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

This century-old barn is home to a homey, eclectic film festival.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.