Places tishtishtish Wants to Go

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A palatial art deco restroom.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

This plaque marks the spot where the first crossing guards helped get kids safely to school.

This double-arched masonry highway bridge is the only structure of its kind in Minnesota.

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

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

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

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

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

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

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.

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

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

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

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.