Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

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

The oldest remaining frame residence in Minneapolis.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

A Studio on the Fringes of the Northeast Art District.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

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Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

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

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

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.