Places Opinicus Wants to Go

This simple stone monument honors a 19th-century tragedy.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

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

A museum, walk-through diorama, and library nestled under one castle-like roof.

Population: 1.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

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

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

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.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

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

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."