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

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

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

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

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

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

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

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

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.

The Real LegoLand.

From burial ground bocce ball court.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

The oldest remaining frame residence in Minneapolis.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

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