This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

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.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

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

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

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

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

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

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

The last remaining Shaker community still practices a uniquely communal and utopian version of Christianity.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.

The world's largest rotating world.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.