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A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.

The history of central Minnesota under one roof.

This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

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

A stone face watches over the river.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

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

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

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

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

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

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

A damaged tree turned into a whimsical giant pencil that is sharpened each year.

Over 140 boathouses built by miners from the Soudan Iron Mine in the early 20th century overlook Stuntz Bay on Lake Vermilion.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.