One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

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

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

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

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

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

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

A Studio on the Fringes of the Northeast Art District.

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

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

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

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

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

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

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

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

A collection of pianos and more guaranteed to delight anyone interested in music history.

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

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.