When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

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

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

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 only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

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

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

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

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.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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

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

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

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.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

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