Places julianearandfar Wants to Go

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

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

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

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.

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

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

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

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

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

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.