Blue Earth, Minnesota
Jolly Green Giant Statue
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
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Blue Earth, Minnesota
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
Austin, Minnesota
Ever wanted to can Spam?
Saint Paul, Minnesota
An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Minnesota
When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
An architecturally-focused antique shop.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Harmony, Minnesota
This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Springfield, Illinois
The history of funerals and funerary customs.
Des Plaines, Illinois
Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.
Essex, Illinois
Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.
Chicago, Illinois
The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Hoopeston, Illinois
An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.
Elmhurst, Illinois
A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.
Chicago, Illinois
Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.
Port Byron, Illinois
A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.
Staunton, Illinois
This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.
Evanston, Illinois
The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.