A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

Take a walk on Minnesota’s last historic covered bridge.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

A garden full of metal sculptures that celebrate the double bass.

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.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.