One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

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

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

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

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.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

This large granite seal outside a Massachusetts funeral home comes with a surprising dedication.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.