This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

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

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

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

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

Hunting trophies and antique guns make up the unusual display at this Minnesota bank building.

The metal bird, nicknamed "Sandy," stands nearly 40 feet tall and is an homage to the birds that migrate through North Dakota every year.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

In an alley behind a Fargo bar, you can roleplay as Mario while interacting with a popular street mural.

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

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

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

Where one of America's greatest songwriters lived before he was Bob Dylan.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

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

This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.