This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

This quirky roadside attraction provides insight into Minnesota's logging history.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.

Originally built by the Works Progress Administration, this park was recently saved from demolition.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

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.

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

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

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.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

After a battle with Congress, Webb C. Hayes installed the gates of the White House on the fence of his father's Presidential Library and Museum.

This earthwork installation sits on a grassy hill, celebrating Iceland's past and present.

A geothermal paradise with bubbling mud pools and bright blue hot springs.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.