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

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

A palatial art deco restroom.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Expansive and colorful studio of Minneapolis art-star, Doug Padilla.

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

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

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.

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

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

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

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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

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

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

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.