Places thepencilburner Wants to Go

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

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

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

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

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

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

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

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

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

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

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

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

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.