Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Minnesota

While in Minnesota, you might enjoy a visit to:

Erected to remember a Minnesota grasshopper plague. The governor declared a statewide Day of Prayer, then a freak sleet storm killed all the grasshoppers!
~24 miles from Melrose.

The couple that owned him decided that Spotty should stay even after he was dead. He's exhibited at the Kensington Runestone Museum. curled up on the porch of a replica cabin.
~31 miles from Melrose.

The late Francis Johnson's famous giant ball, now the centerpiece of the town. It's the "Largest Ball of Twine Rolled by One Man."
~44 miles from Melrose.

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