Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Judy Garland Museum
Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.
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Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.
Ranier, Minnesota
This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.
Kellogg, Minnesota
This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.
Trempealeau, Wisconsin
A giant fiberglass catfish welcomes visitors to this Wisconsin river town and heralds its annual Catfish Days festival.
Onalaska, Wisconsin
This giant fiberglass sunfish welcomes visitors to Onalaska, Wisconsin, the "Sunfish Capital of the World."
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.
Baraboo, Wisconsin
This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Schroeder, Minnesota
A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.
Silver Bay, Minnesota
This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.
Two Harbors, Minnesota
This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.
Minnesota
When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.
Duluth, Minnesota
This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Rapid City, South Dakota
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
Rapid City, South Dakota
A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Murdo, South Dakota
The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.