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The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

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

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

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

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

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.