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14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

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

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

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

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

The world's largest otter started his life as a high school shop project.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

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

This metal shop's yard is filled with cutout art including an Eiffel Tower replica and Noah's Arch.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.