Minneapolis, Minnesota
Spoonbridge and Cherry
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.
Chanhassen, Minnesota
Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Harmony, Minnesota
This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.
Dexter, Iowa
The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.
Dubuque, Iowa
This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.
Sac City, Iowa
Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.
Adair, Iowa
Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.
Ida Grove, Iowa
An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.
Mount Vernon, Iowa
A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.
Audubon, Iowa
The World's Largest Bull.
Britt, Iowa
An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Dubuque, Iowa
For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.
Clear Lake, Iowa
A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.
Columbus Junction, Iowa
A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.