A stone face watches over the river.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

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

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

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

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

A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

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.

Vice President Humphrey's final resting place is tucked away in this cemetery along with a few other notable figures.

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

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

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.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

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

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

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

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