One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.

Once part of a chain of over 80 restaurants that merged with another Mexican-American chain, it has been reborn in one of its original locations.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

A colossal watermelon slice celebrating Muscatine’s sweet agricultural heritage.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This unusual public park, which contains an eclectic mix of industrial remains from the 19th century, originated as an archaeological dig in the 1980s.

One of only 3 vertical lift bridges on the Mississippi it still operates despite its apparent condition

This statue of Snoopy on vacation is just outside the kids area at Minneapolis Saint Paul International was one of a series of 101 Snoopy statues created in 2000.

Take a walk on Minnesota’s last historic covered bridge.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

A century-old landmark that once employed Sinclair Lewis and is still known for its ghost stories.

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.