Places ehissim Wants to Go

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

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

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

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

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

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

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

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.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

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

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This pop-culture shop also offers the chance to become part of their favorite tv show or movie.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.