University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

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

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

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

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

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

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

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

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

Ever wanted to can Spam?

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.