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

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

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

A public art project at Bde Maka Ska that educates visitors on Dakota history.

Vice President Humphrey's final resting place is tucked away in this cemetery along with a few other notable figures.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

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

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

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

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

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

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

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

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

In an alley behind a Fargo bar, you can roleplay as Mario while interacting with a popular street mural.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

The metal bird, nicknamed "Sandy," stands nearly 40 feet tall and is an homage to the birds that migrate through North Dakota every year.