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

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

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

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

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.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

An urban laboratory.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.