Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

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

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

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

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

A palatial art deco restroom.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

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

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

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

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