This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.

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

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

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

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

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.

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

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.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

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

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.