A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

An old water tower converted into a functioning large Swedish coffee pot showcases Lindström, Minnesota's Swedish roots

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

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

Over 140 boathouses built by miners from the Soudan Iron Mine in the early 20th century overlook Stuntz Bay on Lake Vermilion.

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

This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The Branch Davidian compound known as the Mount Carmel Center became the site of one of the most controversial law enforcement operations in U.S. history.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

A venerable restaurant chain's one-off attempt to blur the line between themed eatery and amusement park

This descriptively-named art museum occupies an abandoned former county jail

A park full of giant teddy bear statues was an anonymous gift to its host city

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

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

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.