Dassel, Minnesota
The Mushroom Building
The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.
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Dassel, Minnesota
The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.
Duluth, Minnesota
A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.
Falcon Heights, Minnesota
This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."
Darwin, Minnesota
17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.
Austin, Minnesota
Ever wanted to can Spam?
Minneapolis, Minnesota
An architecturally-focused antique shop.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Des Moines, Iowa
The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.
Adair, Iowa
Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.
Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Eldon, Iowa
Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.
Madrid, Iowa
A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.
Diamond, Missouri
Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Eureka, Missouri
This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.
Weston, Missouri
The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.
Springfield, Missouri
An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.
Springfield, Missouri
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.