A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

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

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.

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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.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

A stone face watches over the river.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

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

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

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

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