Places Opinicus Wants to Go

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

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

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

A stone face watches over the river.

This metal shop's yard is filled with cutout art including an Eiffel Tower replica and Noah's Arch.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

An unusual geological feature towers over the remains of a dark episode in United States history.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

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

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

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

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

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

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.