Places johncyrilokeefe Wants to Go

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

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

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

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

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

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

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

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

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

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

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

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

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