Alamo, Nevada
The Black Mailbox
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
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Alamo, Nevada
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.
Alamo, Nevada
An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.
Overton, Nevada
Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.
Nye County, Nevada
A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Winona, Minnesota
Hunting trophies and antique guns make up the unusual display at this Minnesota bank building.
Brainerd, Minnesota
This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.
Good Thunder, Minnesota
This metal shop's yard is filled with cutout art including an Eiffel Tower replica and Noah's Arch.
St. Cloud, Minnesota
This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.
Madison, Minnesota
This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.
Kelliher, Minnesota
A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.
Winona, Minnesota
Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.
Red Wing, Minnesota
Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."
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 toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.
Baraboo, Wisconsin
The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.