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Museum Opens As Jolly Green Statue Turns 30
Blue Earth - For three decades the Jolly Green Giant has cast a mighty shadow — formed by a body built by healthy vegetables — across Blue Earth, Minnesota. Standing over 55 feet tall, the Giant went up on July 6, 1979. Full story
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Featured Attractions
World's Largest Booming Prairie Chicken
Rothsay, Minnesota
This is the strangest giant bird statue that you'll see in your lifetime.
St. Urho, Grasshopper Chaser
Menahga, Minnesota
St. Urho is honored by a bizarre statue recreating his mythical battle with giant grasshoppers.
Statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
Bemidji, Minnesota
This bulky Bunyan is often dressed in sweaters and funny hats in the winter, but do you really want to drive to northern Minnesota in the winter?
World's Largest Twine Ball
Darwin, Minnesota
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."
Ed's Museum
Wykoff, Minnesota
Edwin Julius Krueger used to run the general store in this tiny town, and he never threw away anything. Including his dead cat.
Big Otter
Fergus Falls, Minnesota
A large, ground-hugging otter statue is a strange source of civic pride in Fergus Falls.
Road Cheese Hypertour
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7 days and 100+ attractions in WI-MN-IA-IL. Day 4, Day 5 and Day 6 hit Minnesota.
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- Alexandria: Big Ole - Viking Statue
- Alexandria: Kensington Runestone
- Akeley: Bunyan Statue and Birthplace
- Austin: Hormel Spam Museum
- Barnum: Voyageur statue [tips]
- Battle Lake: Chief Wenonga [tips]
- Baudette: Walleye Capital of the World
- Belgrade: Crow Pavilion
- Belle Plaine: 2-story Outhouse
- Bemidji: Paul Bunyan and Babe Statues
- Bena: Restaurant Inside a Fish [tips]
- Big Falls: Uncle Dan Campbell statue
- Blackduck: Black Ducks
- Bloomington: Mall of America
- Blue Earth: Jolly Green Giant.
- Brainerd: Paul Bunyan
- Brainerd: Welcome Center Bunyan [tips]
- Chisholm: Iron Man
- Chisholm: Ironworld Discovery Center
- Cloquet: Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station [tips]
- Cold Springs: Grasshopper Chapel [tips]
- Darwin: World's Largest Twine Ball
- Deerwood: Deer statue [tips]
- Duluth: Replica Viking Ship
- Ely: Cabin of the Root Beer Lady
- Erskine: World's Largest Northern [tips]
- Eveleth: World's 2nd Largest Hockey Stick
- Fergus Falls: World's Largest Otter
- Fergus Falls: Canada Goose [tips]
- Frazee: Giant Turkey
- Garrison: Walleye Capital of the World
- Harmony: Niagara Cave
- Hibbing: Greyhound Bus Origin Center
- International Falls: Smokey Bear statue
- Isle: Big Walleye [tips]
- Kabetogama: Bucking Fish Photo Op
- Kabetogama: Ellsworth Rock Garden [tips]
- Kelliher: Paul Bunyan's Grave [Catalog of Bunyans]
- Madison: Lutefisk Capital of the World [tips]
- Mankato: The Last Happy Chef [tips]
- Menahga: St. Urho
- Moorhead: Replica Viking Ship
- Mora: Dala Horse
- Nevis: World's Largest Tiger Muskie
- New Ulm: Hermann the German, Glockenspiel
- Nodine: Culvert Man [tips]
- Northfield: Last Bank Jesse James Tried to Rob [tips]
- North St. Paul: World's Largest Stucco Snowman [tips]
- Olivia: World's Largest Ear of Corn
- Orr: Home of the Giant Bluegill
- Ortonville: Paul Bunyan's anchor [tips]
- Owatonna: Dead Animals Attack!, Cabela's
- Pelican Rapids: World's Largest Pelican
- Pelland Junction: Willie the Worm Man
- Pequot Lakes: World's Largest Fishing Bobber [tips]
- Pine City: Voyageur statue [tips]
- Rochester: Corn water tower
- Rochester: Transparent Man
- Rothsay: World's Largest Prairie Chicken
- Rush City: Walleye Capital of the World
- Shakopee: Sever's Corn Maze
- Silver Bay: Rocky Taconite
- Two Harbors: Giant Voyageur
- Two Harbors: Sandpaper Museum
- Vergas: Big Loon
- Vining: Odd sculptures [tips]
- Virginia: World's Largest Floating Loon
- Wheaton: Big Mallard [tips]
- Wykoff: Ed's Museum
