Pipestone, Minnesota
Giant Pipe of Pipestone
A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.
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Iowa City, Iowa
World’s Largest Wooden Nickel
This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.
Darwin, Minnesota
World's Largest Ball of Twine Rolled by One Man
17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.
Kabetogama Township, Minnesota
Ellsworth Rock Gardens
Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator
This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement.
Garretson, South Dakota
Devil's Gulch
The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.
Garretson, South Dakota
Palisades State Park
These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.
New Ulm, Minnesota
Hermann Heights Monument
A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.
Chicago, Illinois
Monadnock Building
The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.
Chicago, Illinois
300 South Wacker Drive
A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.
Chicago, Illinois
Oz Park
This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
Chicago, Illinois
Lucent
A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.
Bovey, Minnesota
Marcell Experimental Forest
A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.
Northome, Minnesota
The Lost 40
A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.
Baudette, Minnesota
Willie the Walleye
The largest Walleye statue in the world calls this Minnesota town home.
Angle Inlet, Minnesota
Northwest Angle
America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.
Waskish, Minnesota
Big Bog State Recreation Area
Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.
Kelliher, Minnesota
Paul Bunyan's Gravesite
A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.
Maquoketa, Iowa
Maquoketa Caves State Park
A wonderland of caves in eastern Iowa.
Dubuque, Iowa
Fenelon Place Elevator
For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.
Nashville, Tennessee
Robert's Western World
Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Cedar Rapids Municipal Island
One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.
Toronto, Ontario
Acrotholus Audeti
The remains of the oldest bone-headed dinosaur in North America.
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto Music Garden
This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.
