Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

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

Preserving the story of an early 20th-century orphanage.

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

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

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.

Nicknamed the 'Minnehaha Bunny,' this bronze sculpture is nine feet long and weighs 1,500 pounds.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A spirited shopping experience.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

An unsuspecting brick building outside Orlando houses decades of train ephemera.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.