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

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

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

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The first woman in the United States to get a driver's license is buried here.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.

This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

Hiding in plane sight.