Places Klyse Wants to Go

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

A stone face watches over the river.

The Real LegoLand.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

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

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

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

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

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

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.

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

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

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

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

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

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

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

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

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.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.