The Atlas Obscura Guide To Saint Paul

28 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Updated March 18, 2025

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Unusual Attractions in Saint Paul

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Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The entrance to the caves in St. Paul.

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Wabasha Street Caves

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Items on display.

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Center for Lost Objects

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in Como Park, built in 1915.

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Marjorie McNeely Conservatory (Como Park)

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

NWA inflatable plane balloon

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Ax-Man Surplus

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

The Fitzgerald house is the second one from the left.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald House

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

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Rathskeller Cafe

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

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Rathskeller Cafe

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

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"Princess Kay of the Milky Way" Butter Heads

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

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8 Places to Get Musical in Minnesota

Two 20th-century musical figures tower over the state of Minnesota: Prince Rogers Nelson and Robert Allen Zimmerman. (That's Prince and Dylan to us mere mortals.) And while the Gopher State definitely celebrates its favorite musical sons, much of the state has a musical bent to it, from a singing beach to a room so devoid of sound is makes a musical madness all its own.

Basshenge is a big homage to a big instrument.

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