Places sophiajones136 Wants to Go

A notable example of Prairie School architecture that disregarded Victorian concepts about room divisions and featured a long, narrow floor plan.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

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

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

The Real LegoLand.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

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.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

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

A tribute to Charles M. Schulz, who created the iconic cartoon that features Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and more.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

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

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”

A giant fiberglass catfish welcomes visitors to this Wisconsin river town and heralds its annual Catfish Days festival.

This giant fiberglass sunfish welcomes visitors to Onalaska, Wisconsin, the "Sunfish Capital of the World."