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

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

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

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

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.

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

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

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

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

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

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

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

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

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.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.