Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

This plaque marks the spot where the first crossing guards helped get kids safely to school.

Built in 1931, this small passageway is believed to be the first modern skyway.

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

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

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

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

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

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

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

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

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The Art Deco Silver Screen.

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

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

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

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

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

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