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A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

See how Laura Ingalls lived on the Minnesota prairie.

Expansive and colorful studio of Minneapolis art-star, Doug Padilla.

This park harkens back to frontier life in Wisconsin.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

An ode to Minnesota’s Swedish heritage, this is the largest Dala Horse in the U.S.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A century-old landmark that once employed Sinclair Lewis and is still known for its ghost stories.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

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

The world's largest otter started his life as a high school shop project.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

This wooden troll marks the starting point for Detroit Lakes' troll scavenger hunt.

A chimney and a plaque are all that remains of a logging camp that once cleared out a large swath of Minnesota's old-growth forest.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.

The largest Walleye statue in the world calls this Minnesota town home.

An abandoned mansion is now a haven for urban explorers.

These limestone cliffs are associated with the Greek myth of Prometheus.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.