"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

From burial ground bocce ball court.

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

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

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

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

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

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

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

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

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

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

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

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

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.

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

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.