This award-winning PBS documentary explores what happens when 300 Hasidic Jews and 400 Mexican immigrants move to a tiny Iowa town.

Llamas are best known for their work as pack animals in the highlands of Peru. At the Minnesota State Fair, however, they’ve set aside the trekking supplies and are sporting costumes instead.

There’s just one laundromat in Spring Grove, Minn. It’s equipped with 18 washers and 12 dryers. Then there are the 2,726 dolls hanging from the ceiling.

Reporter Nikki Tundel visits a Minnesota nursing program where pistachio pudding indicates infection and boiled okra is used to represent post-op drainage. And the students are better clinicians because of it.

Instead of seasonal attire like swimsuits and flip flops, these campers donned corsets and petticoats. And rather than roasting marshmallows, they enjoyed formal tea parties.

On June 17, 2010, nearly 40 tornados were reported across the state of Minnesota. One of those twisters tore through the Zeller family farm in Alden.