Places asdonkar Wants to Go

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

The largest Walleye statue in the world calls this Minnesota town home.

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

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

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

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A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

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

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

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

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

A collection of pianos and more guaranteed to delight anyone interested in music history.