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World's Largest Paul Bunyan
Akeley, Minnesota
Akeley's towering Bunyan has dropped to one knee to let visitors perch in his mighty palm.
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."
SPAM Museum
Austin, Minnesota
Hormel's tribute to its most iconic product. History of Spam, collection of spiced pork artifacts. 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!"
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 "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 Chaser
Menahga, Minnesota
St. Urho is honored by a bizarre statue recreating his mythical battle with giant grasshoppers.
Rocky Taconite
Silver Bay, Minnesota
Rocky is one of our favorite metalloid mascots, a cheery byproduct of the taconite mining industry.
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.
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.
Boxy Bunyan and Babe Statues
Bemidji, Minnesota
These blocky statues, built in the late 1930s, are the oldest roadside Bunyan and Babe.
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.
Greyhound Bus Museum
Hibbing, Minnesota
Devoted to the Greyhound Bus Line, in the city of its birth. Sit in an old, real bus and pretend you're being driven to Duluth or St. Paul. Good times.
World's Largest Pelican
Pelican Rapids, Minnesota
Pelican Pete watches over a dam spillway and prime fish-gobbling spot.
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- Akeley: World's Largest Paul Bunyan
- Alexandria: Runestone Museum
- Alexandria: Big Ole: America's Biggest Viking
- Angle Inlet: Northernmost Point in the Contiguous U.S. [tips]
- 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: World's Largest Twine Ball
- Detroit Lakes: Becker County Museum Oddities
- Ely: Cabin of the Root Beer Lady
- Eveleth: World's Largest Free-Standing Hockey Stick
- Faribault: Tin Man Family [tips]
- Fergus Falls: Otto the Big Otter
- Fountain: Two-Headed Calf, Padlock of Viking Leif Ericson
- Franconia: Franconia Sculpture Park [tips]
- Frazee: World's Largest Turkey
- Garrison: Giant Walleye in Walleye Capital of the World
- 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]
- Hampton: Vikings, Beach Dude, Gorilla, [tips]
- Harmony: Niagara Cave
- Hibbing: Greyhound Bus Museum
- Hibbing: Pose Inside a Giant Bucket [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]
- Janesville: Frankenstein Monster [tips]
- Kabetogama: Leapin' Walleye Fish Photo Op
- 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]
- Mankato: Last Happy Chef [tips]
- Menahga: Saint Urho, Grasshopper Chaser
- Milan: Liberty Bell, Viking, and Mural [tips]
- Millerville: Our Lady of the Hills: Big Virgin Mary [tips]
- Minneapolis: Mary Tyler Moore Statue [tips]
- Minnetrista: Sculpture Park Mini Golf [tips]
- Mora: Dala Horse
- Morristown: Talking Moose [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]
- Owatonna: Warrior King Jesus on a White Stallion [tips]
- Park Rapids: Mississippi River Starts Here [tips]
- Pelican Rapids: World's Largest Pelican
- Pequot Lakes: Beanhole Days: Burying of the Beans [tips]
- Preston: Two-Way Oldsmobile [tips]
- Princeton: A-Z Happy Chef [tips]
- Rainier: Voyageur Statue [tips]
- Rothsay: World's Largest "Booming" Prairie Chicken
- Royalton: Treasure City - Souvenir Store [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
- Thief River Falls: Chief Moose Dung Statue [tips]
- Two Harbors: Pierre the Pantsless Voyageur
- Vergas: World's Largest Loon
- Vining: Nyberg Sculpture Park
- Warren: Car Smashed By UFO
- Willmar: Golden Chief Kandiyohi Statue [tips]
- Wykoff: Ed's Museum