Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Minnesota

While in Minnesota, you might enjoy a visit to:

An attempt to build a dam on the Otter Tail River in 1908 was dissembled by a hidden natural spring. Huge chunks of the old concrete dam still span the river in this city park.
~15 miles from Battle Lake.

A big goose that keeps company with the town's other animal celebrity, a giant otter.
~18 miles from Battle Lake.

Forty feet long, twelve feet tall, and known to the residents of Wahpeton as "The Wahpper." Apparently placed to draw envious stares from Minnesota, which is only a hundred feet away across the river.
~42 miles from Battle Lake.

St. Urho, patron saint of Finland, is honored by a bizarre statue recreating his mythical battle with giant grasshoppers.
~44 miles from Battle Lake.

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