A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

A surprisingly large number of show waterski teams are located here in Wisconsin.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A stone face watches over the river.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

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

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.