A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.

Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.

17th century mosque for Shah Abbas' harem.

The ancient necropolis houses the immense rock-cut tombs of four Persian kings.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.