Pipestone, Minnesota
Giant Pipe of Pipestone
A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Pipestone, Minnesota
A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Topeka, Kansas
These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.
Alexandria, Minnesota
America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.
New Ulm, Minnesota
A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.
Jordan, Minnesota
This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Denver, Colorado
Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.