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

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

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.

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

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

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

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

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.