The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

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

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

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

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

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.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

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

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.