Places Eyeofswazey Wants to Go

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

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

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

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

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

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

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

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

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

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

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

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.