A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

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

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

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

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

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

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

A stone face watches over the river.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

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.

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

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

A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

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

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

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

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

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

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.