Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Stone Arch Bridge
The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Elmira, Michigan
This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.
Boyne City, Michigan
Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.
Grayling, Michigan
This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.
Clare, Michigan
The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.
Lansing, Michigan
Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.
Lansing, Michigan
A horse-drawn 1858 steam pumper fire engine encased in glass on the front lawn of a Michigan insurance company.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.
Frankenmuth, Michigan
World's largest Christmas store.
Bay City, Michigan
This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”
Midland, Michigan
There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.
Midland, Michigan
This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.
Hayward, Wisconsin
143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.
Ironwood, Michigan
The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Arco, Idaho
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
Boise, Idaho
This work of art by Matthew Mazzotta resides in this park dedicated to the first black legislator in Idaho.