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Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This double-arched masonry highway bridge is the only structure of its kind in Minnesota.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

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

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

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

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

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

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

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