Places melodysky Wants to Go

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

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

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

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

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

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

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Originally built by the Works Progress Administration, this park was recently saved from demolition.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

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

A public art project at Bde Maka Ska that educates visitors on Dakota history.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

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

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

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

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

Nicknamed the 'Minnehaha Bunny,' this bronze sculpture is nine feet long and weighs 1,500 pounds.