Places pbaker207 Wants to Go

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

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

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

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

The tunnel that runs beneath this former inn was once a hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.

Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.