Places emmamcmullen2021 Wants to Go

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

This quirky roadside attraction provides insight into Minnesota's logging history.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

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

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

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

A historic cider mill still using time-tested techniques.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.