Two Harbors, Minnesota
3M Birthplace Museum
This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.
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Two Harbors, Minnesota
This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.
Duluth, Minnesota
This quirky roadside attraction provides insight into Minnesota's logging history.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Each of these 87 large stones has a unique message. Together, they form part of the Minnesota Military Family Tribute.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
New York, New York
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
Brooklyn, New York
This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.
New York, New York
You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.
New York, New York
What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.
Braga, Portugal
A replica of the Roman emperor in glorious full color.
Braga, Portugal
A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.
Nuuk, Greenland
Greenland's first shopping mall also hosts the country's government.
Nuuk, Greenland
These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.
Ilulissat, Greenland
A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.
Gokdepe, Turkmenistan
A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.