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

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

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

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

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

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

The history of central Minnesota under one roof.

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

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.

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.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

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

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.