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

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

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

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

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

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

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

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

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

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

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

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

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

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.