Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

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

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

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

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

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

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

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.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

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

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.