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

From burial ground bocce ball court.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

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

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

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

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

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

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

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.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

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

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

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

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.