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This sculpture is dedicated to Minnesota natives who served in combat.

This collection is the largest in the world dedicated to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

Once a major cursed object, this frog-shaped rock has become a source of good luck

A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This shrine is home to an unusual trifold torii and a replica Trafalgar Square lion.

A grand Buddhist temple with Indian influences.

Unbeknownst to many, an ancient burial mound hides in plain sight in Ueno Park.

Overlooked by many, this tiny sacred island in Ueno Park only opens to the public every 12 days.

A beautiful work of art designed to impress the Allied Forces.

A unique shrine dedicated to the deified skull of a 17th-century Tokyo courtesan.

These ordinary blocks of stone are the last surviving remains of Tokyo's infamous red-light district.

A commemoration of the first Dutchman to reach Japan, whose name still echoes in the heart of Tokyo.

The origin of this bizarre, ghostly idol is a local mystery, even to the temple it calls home.

This shrine, built to protect against destructive waves, is home to two monumental lion heads.

A precursor to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Tower of the Sun.