The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

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

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

The World's Largest Bull.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.