Places kuukisu Wants to Go

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

An underappreciated sculpture garden just a few blocks from the capitol building.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

A garden full of metal sculptures that celebrate the double bass.

Each of these 87 large stones has a unique message. Together, they form part of the Minnesota Military Family Tribute.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

From burial ground bocce ball court.

The largest Walleye statue in the world calls this Minnesota town home.

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

This double-arched masonry highway bridge is the only structure of its kind in Minnesota.

A piece of solitude and tranquility in the heart of East Saint Paul.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

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

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

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

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

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