Places stonoceno Wants to Go

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

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

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

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

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

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

A palatial art deco restroom.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

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

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

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.