A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

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

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

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

A palatial art deco restroom.

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

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

The Real LegoLand.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.