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

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.

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

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

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

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

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

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

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

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

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

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

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A Bibliophile's Dream.