Places alecbaechle Wants to Go

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

This double-arched masonry highway bridge is the only structure of its kind in Minnesota.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

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Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.