Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

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.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

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.

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

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.