Places grrrroww Wants to Go

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

An underappreciated sculpture garden just a few blocks from the capitol building.

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

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A piece of solitude and tranquility in the heart of East Saint Paul.

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

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Walk up a ramp through a forest for panoramic views of Lake Michigan.

Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."