Bemidji, Minnesota
Fireplace of States
This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.
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Bemidji, Minnesota
Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox
These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.
Lake Itasca, Minnesota
Headwaters of the Mississippi River
At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.
Cloquet, Minnesota
Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Madison, Wisconsin
Elvis Karate Fight Plaque
A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
Mount Horeb Trollway
A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.
Phillips, Wisconsin
Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park
An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
World's Largest Six-Pack
Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.
Athens, Wisconsin
45 X 90 Geographical Marker
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Plainfield, Wisconsin
Grave of Ed Gein
Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.
Alexandria, Minnesota
Big Ole
America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.
Lorette, Manitoba
Longitudinal Centre of Canada
This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.
Rosser, Manitoba
Cement Cemetery
Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.
Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo Wood Chipper
"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"
Duluth, Minnesota
Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum
The watery grave of an impractical idea.
Duluth, Minnesota
S.S. William A. Irvin
This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.
Duluth, Minnesota
Glensheen Historic Estate
This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.
Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin
World's Heaviest Ball of Twine
Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.
Darwin, Minnesota
World's Largest Ball of Twine Rolled by One Man
17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.
Belgrade, Minnesota
World's Largest Crow
This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mary Tyler Moore Statue
A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
'Miracle on Ice' Statue
This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.
Shullsburg, Wisconsin
Gravity Hill in Wisconsin
A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Duquesne Incline
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
