Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

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

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

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

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

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.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

On a small Puerto Rican island, banks of secret naval bunkers lie abandoned and filled with piles of office equipment.

These red and black houses were awarded to the firefighters who saved their city from an enormous blaze.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.