Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

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

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

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

The inconspicuous grave of the University of Illinois' first president is just steps from the main quadrangle.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

The final resting place of the hero of Air Florida Flight 90 known as "the man in the water."

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.