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World's Largest Tiger Muskie
Nevis, Minnesota
Big concrete catch, positioned for classic "My head's in the mouth of a giant fish!" photos.
Northernmost Point of the Lower 48
Angle Inlet, Minnesota
Trip stretch goal: drive 60 miles north of the Canadian border to get to this peculiar exclave of Minnesota.
Menahga Area Museum: St. Urho and Wally Wood
Menahga, Minnesota
St. Urho statue, display on famous comics artist Wally Wood, and strap-on wooden "bog shoes" for plow horses.
Paul Bunyan Historical Museum
Akeley, Minnesota
See the guestbook from the town's first Paul Bunyan Days festival in 1949, and a file cabinet time capsule sealed by local high school students in 1989.
Bruno the Town Dog
Longville, Minnesota
Town mascot conducted regular solo walks into Longville from his home four miles away. 2015 tribute was carved from a black walnut log.
Ken Nyberg's Workshop
Vining, Minnesota
Where folk artist Ken Nyberg, now in his mid-eighties, creates his giant metal sculptures.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
World's Largest Paul Bunyan
Akeley, Minnesota
Akeley's towering Bunyan has dropped to one knee to let visitors perch in his mighty palm.
Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
Darwin, Minnesota
The late Francis Johnson's famous giant ball, now the centerpiece of the town. There are four giant twine balls in America, but this is the only one with its own song.
Runestone Museum
Alexandria, Minnesota
The museum exhibits a mighty slab of cryptically carved rock. Is it a history-shaking bit of debris left by ancient Nordic litterbugs -- or a prank by a bored Minnesota farmer?
Big Ole: America's Biggest Viking
Alexandria, Minnesota
A 28-foot-tall Viking warrior towers over this town of proud Nordic transplants.
SPAM Museum
Austin, Minnesota
Hormel's tribute to its most iconic product. Spam history. Spam making, Spam art, Spam souvenirs, Spam, Spam....
World's Largest Crow
Belgrade, Minnesota
The World's Largest Crow sits atop what is probably The World's Largest Branch. Push a button inside his gazebo, and the crow cries, "AAWWRRR! AWWWWR! Welcome to Crow Country!"
Boxy Bunyan and Babe Statues
Bemidji, Minnesota
These blocky statues, built in the late 1930s, are the oldest roadside Bunyan and Babe. Both statues were restored in 2022.
Big Fish Supper Club
Bena, Minnesota
Stand inside the giant toothy jaws of a 65-foot-long muskie fish for a memorable snapshot. Briefly seen in the opening credits of "National Lampoon's Vacation."
Jolly Green Giant
Blue Earth, Minnesota
Over 55 feet tall, the Giant marks the mid-point of I-90 (America's longest highway) and "the valley" that his multi-national corporation calls home.
Huge Iron Man Statue
Chisholm, Minnesota
A 36-foot-tall brass and copper statue of an 1880s iron miner, standing on top of a 50-foot-tall pile of rusted steel and slag. Big!
Leapin' Walleye Fish Photo Op
Kabetogama, Minnesota
A 14-foot-long leaping fiberglass fish -- with a saddle on its back and a ladder to get to it. A fun photo-op.
Saint Urho: Grasshopper Vanquisher
Menahga, Minnesota
St. Urho, patron saint of Finland, is honored by a statue recreating his epic battle with giant grasshoppers.
Quietest Place on Earth
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A soundproof room in Minneapolis is so quiet that visitors hear the noises made by their joints, lungs, etc. Pricey but unique.
Rocky Taconite
Silver Bay, Minnesota
Rocky is one of our favorite metalloid mascots, a cheery byproduct of the taconite mining industry.
Car Smashed By UFO
Warren, Minnesota
Police cruiser in a county museum, preserved with weird damage made by a UFO Close Encounter in 1979.
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.
Becker County Museum Oddities
Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
Killer wolf Old Three Legs is displayed along with the gun that killed him. There's a replica world's smallest gas station, and the world's largest ball of store string!
Cabin of the Root Beer Lady
Ely, Minnesota
The transplanted home of the deceased, root beer brewin' belle of the Boundary Waters Wilderness.
World's Largest Free-Standing Hockey Stick
Eveleth, Minnesota
Weighs over five tons and is 110 feet long. Displayed as if it's about to slap the world's largest hockey puck, which weighs 700 pounds.
Otto the Big Otter
Fergus Falls, Minnesota
A large, ground-hugging otter statue is a strange source of civic pride in Fergus Falls.
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- Akeley: World's Largest Paul Bunyan
- Alexandria: Runestone Museum
- Alexandria: Big Ole: America's Biggest Viking
- Angle Inlet: Northernmost Point of the Lower 48
- Arco: H.P. Pederson Rock Garden [tips]
- Austin: SPAM Museum
- Backus: Colonel Cobber, Giant Corn Man
- Barnum: Big Louis: 25-Foot-Tall Voyageur [tips]
- Battle Lake: Chief Wenonga Statue [tips]
- Belgrade: World's Largest Crow
- Bemidji: Boxy Bunyan and Babe Statues
- Bemidji: Nanobouzou, Bunyan's Muffler Man Foe [tips]
- Bena: Big Fish Supper Club
- Bigfork: See Birch Bark Canoes Made [tips]
- Blackduck: World's Largest Black Duck Statue
- Blue Earth: Jolly Green Giant
- Brainerd: Giant Sitting, Talking Paul Bunyan
- Chandler: Collapsed "In God We Trust" Water Tank Tornado Memorial [tips]
- Chanhassen: Giant Purple Face of Prince [tips]
- Chanhassen: Prince's Paisley Park [tips]
- Chisholm: Huge Iron Man Statue
- Crane Lake: Big Voyageur Statue [tips]
- Crosby: Serpent Lake Serpent Statue [tips]
- Darwin: Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
- Detroit Lakes: Becker County Museum Oddities
- Elbow Lake: Big Folk Art: Jesus, Troll, Earth Eagle
- Ely: Cabin of the Root Beer Lady
- Eveleth: World's Largest Free-Standing Hockey Stick
- Fairmont: Southern MN Music, Linda McCartney's Meatless Frozen Entrees [tips]
- Falcon Heights: Giant Pioneer Woman
- Fergus Falls: Otto the Big Otter
- Fountain: Two-Headed Calf, Padlock of Viking Leif Ericson
- Franconia: Franconia Sculpture Park [tips]
- Frazee: Big Tom: World's Largest Turkey
- Garrison: Wally Walleye
- Good Thunder: Lillo's Metal Art: Eiffel Tower, Firing Rifle, Jesse James [tips]
- Grand Marais: Giant Fish Crashing Through Building [tips]
- Hackensack: Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart Lucette [tips]
- Halstad: World's Largest Sugar Beet [tips]
- Hampton: Vikings, Beach Dude, Gorilla [tips]
- Hampton: Cambodian Buddhist Temple [tips]
- Harmony: Niagara Cave
- Hibbing: Greyhound Bus Museum
- Hibbing: Hull Rust Mahoning Mineview [tips]
- Hinckley: Great Hinckley Fire Museum and Mass Grave
- Hopkins: World's Largest Raspberry
- International Falls: Big Smokey Bear
- International Falls: Big Statue of Bronko Nagurski [tips]
- Isle: Mean Muskie and Walleye [tips]
- Kabetogama: Leapin' Walleye Fish Photo Op
- Karlstad: Muffler Man: Bunyan with Guitar [tips]
- Kasota: Drive A Tank [tips]
- Kensington: Replica of Runestone at Discovery Spot
- Lakeville: Hot Sam's: Big Weird Junk [tips]
- Long Prairie: Iwo Jima in Steel and Other Tributes [tips]
- Luverne: Nutcrackers of Luverne
- Mankato: Last Happy Chef [tips]
- Menahga: Saint Urho: Grasshopper Vanquisher
- Menahga: Menahga Area Museum: St. Urho and Wally Wood
- Milan: Liberty Bell, Viking, and Mural [tips]
- Millerville: Our Lady of the Hills: Big Virgin Mary [tips]
- Minneapolis: Mary Tyler Moore Statue
- Minneapolis: T-Rex Attacks a Car [tips]
- Minneapolis: Quietest Place on Earth
- Minnetrista: Sculpture Park Mini Golf [tips]
- Mora: 22-Foot-Tall Dala Horse
- Morristown: Talking Moose [tips]
- Mountain Lake: Burger Family [tips]
- Nevis: World's Largest Tiger Muskie
- New Ulm: Hermann the German
- Nodine: Culvert Man [tips]
- North Mankato: 10-Foot-Tall Steel Godzilla [tips]
- North St. Paul: World's Largest Stucco Snowman [tips]
- Ogilvie: Rusty the Dragon [tips]
- Olivia: Giant Corn Gazebo
- Park Rapids: Mississippi River Starts Here [tips]
- Pelican Rapids: Pelican Pete: World's Largest Pelican
- Pequot Lakes: Beanhole Days: Burying of the Beans [tips]
- Preston: Two-Way Oldsmobile [tips]
- Princeton: A-Z Happy Chef [tips]
- Proctor: Front Yard Titanic [tips]
- Ranier: Big Vic: Voyageur Statue [tips]
- Red Lake: Giant Eagle Buildings [tips]
- Rothsay: World's Largest "Booming" Prairie Chicken
- Royalton: Man-Eating Clam [tips]
- Shakopee: Sever's Corn Maze
- Silver Bay: Rocky Taconite
- Soudan: Deepest Place You Can Go In America
- Spring Grove: Troll, Viking, and Bear [tips]
- St. Paul: Wabasha Street Caves Tour
- St. Paul: Can Can Wonderland: Mini-Golf [tips]
- Thief River Falls: Chief Moose Dung Statue [tips]
- Two Harbors: Pierre the Pantsless Voyageur
- Vergas: World's Largest Loon
- Vining: Nyberg Sculpture Park
- Vining: Ken Nyberg's Workshop
- Walker: Paul Bunyan's Guest House [tips]
- Warren: Car Smashed By UFO
- Willmar: Golden Chief Kandiyohi Statue [tips]
- Windom: Curt's Aluminum Statues [tips]
- Wykoff: Ed's Museum