Places rubysage Wants to Go

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

This quirky roadside attraction provides insight into Minnesota's logging history.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

A piece of solitude and tranquility in the heart of East Saint Paul.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

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

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

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

A palatial art deco restroom.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

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

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

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

A collection of pianos and more guaranteed to delight anyone interested in music history.

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