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

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

An underappreciated sculpture garden just a few blocks from the capitol building.

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

A piece of solitude and tranquility in the heart of East Saint Paul.

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

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

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

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

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

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Little is left of this formerly bustling railroad junction on the Transcontinental Railroad.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

Beehive charcoal kilns and slag deposits mark this late 19th century camp centered on a smelter.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.