Minnesota Attractions and Oddities
All the oddball Minnesota places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports.
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- Aitkin: Fish House Parade
- Aitkin: Robin Hood Statue
- Akeley: Paul Bunyan Statue and Birthplace
- Albert Lea: Birthplace of Eddie Cochran
- Albert Lea: Farmer - Pitchfork Pete
- Albertville: Space Aliens Grill And Bar
- Alexandria: Big Ole - Big Viking Statue
- Alexandria: Giant Replica Runestone
- Alexandria: Runestone Museum
- Alexandria: Spotty the Stuffed Dog
- Alvwood: Surveying Goof - The Lost Forty
- Angle Inlet: Northernmost Post Office in the Lower 48 States
- Anoka: Halloween Capital of the World
- Appleton: Sinclair Dinosaur
- Ashby: Big Coot (a type of duck) Statue
- Austin: SPAM Museum
- Battle Lake: Chief Wenonga Statue
- Baudette: Willie the Walleye - Walleye Capital of the World
- Baxter: Bowling Bunyan and Babe
- Beaver Bay: Large Chairs
- Belgrade: World's Largest Crow
- Belle Plaine: Two-Story Outhouse
- Bemidji: Boxy Bunyan and Babe Statues
- Bemidji: Chief Bemidji Statue
- Bemidji: Dream Catcher and Three Indians
- Bemidji: Nanobojo, Bunyan's Muffler Man Foe
- Bena: Big Fish Restaurant
- Benson: Nation's Only "Kid Day"
- Big Falls: Uncle Dan Campbell Statue
- Blackduck: Black Duck - Drake Motel
- Blackduck: Original Black Duck Statue
- Blackduck: World's Largest Black Duck Statue
- Bloomington: Harmon Killebrew Homer Tribute Chair
- Bloomington: The Mall of America
- Blue Earth: Jolly Green Giant
- Blue Earth: Jolly Green Giant Museum
- Blue Earth: Sprout, Jolly Green Giant's Bud
- Brainerd: Babe the Blue Ox
- Brainerd: False "Fargo" Movie Bunyan
- Brainerd: Giant Sitting Paul Bunyan
- Brainerd: Jurassic Auto Wash Dinosaurs
- Brainerd: Paul Bunyan and Babe Statue
- Brainerd: Paul Bunyan's Flashlight?
- Brainerd: Paul Bunyan's Footsteps
- Brainerd: Welcome Center Paul Bunyan Statue
- Brainerd: Wild Things Hay Bales
- Chandler: Collapsed "In God We Trust" Water Tank Tornado Memorial
- Chisholm: Huge Iron Man Statue
- Chisholm: Ironworld Discovery Center - Pellet Pete
- Cloquet: Big Voyageur Statue
- Cloquet: Dala Horse
- Cloquet: Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station
- Cold Spring: Grasshopper Assumption Chapel
- Crane Lake: Big Voyageur Statue
- Crookston: Large Ox Cart, Ox, and Man
- Crookston: World's Largest Ox Cart
- Crosby: Serpent Lake Serpent Statue
- Darwin: World's Largest Twine Ball
- Dassel: Ergot Museum
- Dassel: Mushroom Building
- Dawson: Gnometown, USA
- Deer Creek: Deer Statue
- Deer River: Northern Pike Statue
- Deerwood: Big Leaping Deer
- Delano: Big Chicken
- Detroit Lakes: Old Three Legs, Stuffed Killer Wolf
- Detroit Lakes: Sunfish - Community Art Project
- Downer: Shoe Fence
- Duluth: Bob Dylan's Boyhood Home
- Duluth: Famous Aerial Lift Bridge
- Duluth: Leif Erickson Viking Ship
- Duluth: Steven Seagull - Polite Knocker
- Eden Prairie: Minnesota Vikings Ship
- Effie: Homemade Mosquito Statue
- Elk River: Dinosaur - Triceratops
- Ely: Cabin of the Root Beer Lady
- Ely: Pillow Rocks
- Erskine: World's Largest Northern (a fish)
- Eveleth: World's Largest Free-Standing Hockey Stick
- Fairmont: Southern MN Music, Linda McCartney's Meatless Frozen Entrees
- Faribault: A&W Root Beer Man
- Faribault: Tin Man Family
- Fergus Falls: Big Library Books
- Fergus Falls: Big Ship
- Fergus Falls: Broken Down Dam
- Fergus Falls: Continental Divide Marker
- Fergus Falls: Home Ranch Beef Cow
- Fergus Falls: Large Canada Goose
- Fergus Falls: Otto the Big Otter
- Fergus Falls: Spartan Statue
- Finland: Tree Trunk St. Urho Statue
- Finlayson: St. Urho's Day Celebration
- Fosston: Cordwood Pete and Tamarack
- Fosston: Wayside Chapel - Tiny Church
- Franconia: Franconia Sculpture Park
- Franklin: Catfish Capital of Minnesota
- Frazee: Goose Pond Moose
- Frazee: Original Big Turkey
- Frazee: World's Largest Turkey
- Freeport: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Garrison: Giant Walleye in Walleye Capital of the World
- Gilbert: "Whorehouse Days" Festival
- Grand Marais: Giant Fish Crashing Through Building
- Grand Rapids: Judy Garland Museum
- Hackensack: Paul Bunyan's Girlfriend Lucette
- Hallock: Fargo Movie Site
- Hampton: Cambodian Buddhist Temple
- Hampton: Vikings, Beach Dude, Gorilla,
- Harmony: Niagara Cave
- Herman: Herman Iron Pour
- Hibbing: Bob Dylan's Teenage Home
- Hibbing: Greyhound Bus Origin Center
- Hibbing: Paper Mache Statue of Bob Dylan
- Hibbing: Pose Inside a Giant Bucket
- Hibbing: Zimmy's - Dylan-themed Restaurant
- Hinckley: Great Hinckley Fire Museum and Mass Grave
- Hutchinson: Statue of the Singing Hutchinson Brothers
- International Falls: Big Smokey Bear
- International Falls: Fisherman Statue
- International Falls: Metal Yard Sculptures
- Isle: Big Fish Statue - Walleye
- Isle: Mean Muskie and Walleye
- Jasper: Antique Windmills of Earth
- Kabetogama: Ellsworth Rock Garden
- Kabetogama: Leapin' Walleye Fish Photo Op
- Karlstad: Moose Capital of Minnesota
- Kelliher: Paul Bunyan's Grave
- Kellogg: Large Cowboy Boot
- Kellogg: Purple Waterfall at L.A.R.K. Toys
- Kerkhoven: Singing Highway
- La Crescent: Shoe Trees
- Lake Benton: Heritage and Wind Power Learning Center
- Lakeville: Hot Sam's Antiques - Giant Guitar
- Le Sueur: Old Brewery Hill Spook Light
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- Lindstrom: "The Emigrants" Karl Oskar and wife Kristina Statue
- Lindstrom: Meat Market Wiener
- Lindstrom: Swedish Coffee Pot Water Tower
- Littlefork: New Jack Pine Savage statue
- Long Beach: Tiny Church
- Long Prairie: Iwo Jima in Steel and Other Tributes
- Longville: Turtle Race Capital of the World
- Lutsen: Tin Man and Metal Sculptures
- Luverne: Tiny Church
- Madison: Worlds Largest Lutefisk
- Mankato: Last Happy Chef
- Mankato: Library on Site of Largest US Mass Execution
- Menahga: St. Urho, Grasshopper Chaser
- Milaca: Happy Chef and Giant Miller Beer Bottle
- Milan: Liberty Bell, Viking, and Mural
- Minneapolis: Extruded Metro Transit Bus
- Minneapolis: Golden Glove
- Minneapolis: House of Balls
- Minneapolis: Huge Bottle Cap
- Minneapolis: Larry Craig Solicitation Bathroom
- Minneapolis: Mari's Place - Yard Art from Junk
- Minneapolis: Mary Tyler Moore Statue
- Minneapolis: Showmen's Rest Cemetery
- Minneapolis: Spoonbridge and Cherry
- Minneapolis: The Elf Tree
- Minneapolis: Tiny Tim's Tomb
- Minneapolis: Urban Shoe Tree
- Montgomery: Big Honza's Museum of Unnatural History
- Moorhead: Viking Ship Replica
- Moose Lake: Forest Fire Mass Grave Monument
- Mora: Dala Horse
- Mounds View: Large Landlocked Mermaid
- Nevis: Heart of Minnesota Emu Ranch Tours
- Nevis: World's Largest Tiger Muskie
- New Prague: Large Panfish Statue
- New Ulm: German Brewery Fun
- New Ulm: Glockenspiel Clock Tower
- New Ulm: Hermann the German
- New York Mills: Tractor Sculpture, Other Scrap Art
- Nisswa: "Original" Home of the Turtle Races
- Nodine: Culvert Man
- North St. Paul: World's Largest Stucco Snowman
- Northfield: Defeat of Jesse James Days
- Northfield: Last Bank Jesse James Tried to Rob
- Northome: Towering Bear
- Olivia: Giant Corn Gazebo
- Orr: Big Bluegill Fish Statue
- Ortonville: Paul Bunyan's Anchor
- Ottertail: Scrap Metal Otter Sculpture
- Owatonna: Cabela's: Dead Animals in Big Store
- Owatonna: Three T-38 Jets Statue
- Owatonna: Warrior King Jesus on a White Stallion
- Park Rapids: Headwaters of the Mississippi River
- Park Rapids: Large Landlocked Loon
- Pelican Rapids: World's Largest Pelican
- Pequot Lakes: Beanhole Days - Burying of the Beans
- Pequot Lakes: Fishing Bobber Water Tower
- Pequot Lakes: Paul Bunyan Statue
- Pequot Lakes: Paul Bunyan’s Chair
- Pillager: Horse, Cow, Wagon, and Helicopter
- Pillager: Large Bull
- Pine City: Tall Voyageur Statue
- Pine River: Paul Bunyan's Boots, Now Footprints
- Pipestone: Big Peace Pipe
- Pipestone: The Old Stone Face
- Plainview: Bull Statue
- Preston: Huge Trout Statue
- Princeton: A-Z Happy Chef
- Prior Lake: Casino Teepee of Light
- Rapidan: Rapidan Dam Store - That Dam Humor
- Red Lake: World's Largest Eagle
- Red Wing: Boots of Red Wing
- Red Wing: World's Largest Boot
- Remer: Big Bald Eagle
- Rochester: Ear of Corn Water Tower
- Rochester: Large Medical Scooter
- Rochester: Transparent Man
- Rockville: Bass Fish Statue
- Roseville: Minnesota's Oldest Dairy Queen
- Rothsay: World's Largest "Booming" Prairie Chicken
- Royalton: Treasure City - Souvenir Store
- Rush City: World's Largest Walleye
- Sanborn: Sod House Bed and Breakfast
- Sauk Centre: Glowing Tombstone
- Shakopee: Sever's Corn Maze
- Silver Bay: Rocky Taconite
- Sleepy Eye: The Real Linus Statue
- Soudan: Deepest Place You Can Go In America
- Spring Lake Park: Giant Creatures - Mini Golf Obstacles
- Spring Valley: Indian Statue
- St Paul: Giant Golden Eagle
- St. Bonifacius: Nike Hercules Missile
- St. Louis Park: Roller Garden with Dinosaur
- St. Paul: Hand-Carved Statue of Liberty
- St. Paul: Large Green Chair
- St. Paul: Wabasha Street Caves Tour
- St. Paul: Ye Olde Mill
- St. Peter: Soderlund Pharmacy Museum
- Starbuck: Big Hobo, Starbuck, Largest Lefse Sign
- Starbuck: Oil Tank Horses
- Thief River Falls: Chief Moose Dung Statue
- Two Harbors: Big Peter Toth Indian Head
- Two Harbors: Carved Tree Trunk Voyageur Statue
- Two Harbors: Iron Dinosaurs
- Two Harbors: Large Rooster
- Two Harbors: Pierre the Pantsless Voyageur
- Two Harbors: Sandpaper Museum
- Tyler: Aebleskiver Days - Foreign Pancake
- Vergas: World's Largest Loon
- Vining: Vining Sculpture Park
- Virginia: Big Uncle Sam
- Virginia: Mineview in the Sky
- Virginia: Sawed-Off Sawyer Sculpture
- Virginia: World's Largest Floating Loon
- Wabasha: Grumpy Old Men Movie Town
- Waite Park: Giant Pepsi Can
- Waite Park: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Walnut Grove: Laura Ingalls Wilder Sod Hut Spot
- Welcome: Horse and Human Drinking Fountain
- West St. Paul: Smallest Park in the United States - Former
- West Union: Metal Farm Animals
- Wheaton: Big Mallard
- White Bear Lake: Large Polar Bear
- Williams: Wildwood Tiny Church
- Willmar: Antique & Classic Boat Museum & Shop
- Willmar: Golden Chief Kandiyohi Statue
- Worthington: Turkey Capital - Turkey Death Race
- Wrenshall: World's Largest White Stag
- Wykoff: Ed's Museum
- Wykoff: Jail Haus Bed & Breakfast
- Wyoming: Happy Chef, now a Pizza Chef
- Zimmerman: Happy Chef
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Gone But Not Forgotten
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February 6, 2012
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