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

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

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.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.

An ode to South Dakota's state fish.

This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.