Minneapolis, Minnesota
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One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.
Paju, South Korea
Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.
Paju, South Korea
South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.
Los Angeles, California
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
Istanbul, Turkey
A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."
Chester, England
Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.
New York, New York
Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.
Falcon Heights, Minnesota
This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.