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

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

The cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

The only fully operational windmill in Canada.

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

Preserving the story of an early 20th-century orphanage.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

The tragic death of 19-year-old Mabel Tainter in 1886 led to the construction of this unique Victorian-era theater in the northern woods of Wisconsin.

A roadside statue store in rural Minnesota with quirky displays.

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

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

This metal shop's yard is filled with cutout art including an Eiffel Tower replica and Noah's Arch.

Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

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

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.