Places marytreptow Wants to Go

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.

Experience the life of an 1800's lumberjack at this interactive museum that is only accessible by railroad.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

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

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

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

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

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

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

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

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

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

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.