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A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

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

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

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

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

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

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

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

A renowned Civil War veteran, this Bald eagle now presides over the Wisconsin State Assembly.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

View Kentucky's beauty and history from the perspective of painter John James Audubon, author and illustrator.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

In 1912, a broken section of the reservoir wall released millions of gallons of water and destroyed many homes downhill.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.