Places Carman Wants to Go

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

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

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

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

Once part of a chain of over 80 restaurants that merged with another Mexican-American chain, it has been reborn in one of its original locations.

Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.

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

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

In this Romani neighborhood lies a museum dedicated to the culture and history of the Roma.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.