Places reaganmachugh Wants to Go

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

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

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

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

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

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

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

For one month, the fields and skies of Gibbon, Nebraska, come alive with one of the largest gatherings of sandhill cranes in North America.

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

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

A Winnebago Tribe collection featuring arrowheads, artwork, and a mysterious rock carving.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

In addition to fishing and camping, this spot in Nebraska’s Sandhills is one of the world’s darkest places.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.