This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.

This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.

This cairn in the shape of a woman has looked over a tiny Minnesota town for well over a century.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

Its collection contains relics from the devastating disaster that set the town ablaze.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

A garden full of metal sculptures that celebrate the double bass.

This century-old barn is home to a homey, eclectic film festival.

Each of these 87 large stones has a unique message. Together, they form part of the Minnesota Military Family Tribute.

The largest Walleye statue in the world calls this Minnesota town home.

Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

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

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.