A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

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

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

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

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

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

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

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

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

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

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

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

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

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