Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The birthplace of professional hockey on the shores of Portage Lake.

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

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

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

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

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

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

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

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural 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.

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

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.