Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City Library's Community Bookshelf
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.
Bemidji, Minnesota
These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Blue Earth, Minnesota
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Dearborn, Michigan
A comprehensive archive of Hallmark Holiday ornaments.
Dearborn, Michigan
One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.
Detroit, Michigan
It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.
Dearborn, Michigan
Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Paradise, Michigan
This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Adams, Massachusetts
The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.
Concord, Massachusetts
Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.
Boston, Massachusetts
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Boston, Massachusetts
This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.
Concord, Massachusetts
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
Boston, Massachusetts
The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.