This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

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

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

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

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

A palatial art deco restroom.

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

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.