Minnesota Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Minnesota. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports.
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Aitkin: Fish House Parade - Aitkin: Robin Hood Statue
- Akeley: Paul Bunyan Historical Museum
- Akeley: World's Largest Paul Bunyan
- Albert Lea: Fountain Lake Mermaid
- Albert Lea: Marion "Happy Days" Ross Statue
- Albertville: Space Aliens Grill And Bar
- Alexandria: Big Fish Atop a Sign
- Alexandria: Big Ole: America's Biggest Viking
- Alexandria: Giant Replica Runestone
- Alexandria: Runestone Museum
- Alexandria: Spotty the Stuffed Dog
- Alvwood: Surveying Goof - The Lost Forty
- Angle Inlet: Northernmost Point U.S.A. (Contiguous)
- Angle Inlet: Northernmost Post Office in the Lower 48 States
- Angle Inlet: Northernmost School in the Lower 48 States
- Anoka: Pumpkin Roundabout
- Anoka: Rum River Stone House
- Arco: H.P. Pederson Rock Garden
- Arlington: Baseball Water Tower
- Ashby: Big Coot (a type of duck) Statue
- Askov: Indoor Little Mermaid
- Audubon: Minnesota's Largest Purple Martin House
- Austin: Big SPAM Can
- Austin: Buffy the Cow
- Austin: Giant Fork Covered in Forks
- Austin: Minimart Liquor Store Rooster
- Austin: SPAM Museum
- Austin: Tiny Church: Kehret Roadside Chapel
- Backus: Colonel Cobber, Giant Corn Man
- Barnum: Big Louis: 25-Foot-Tall Voyageur
- Battle Lake: Big Fish Statue
- Battle Lake: Chief Wenonga Statue
- Battle Lake: Rusty: 15-Foot-Tall Art Fish
- Baudette: Willie Walleye
- Baxter: Elvis Babe Ox
- Belgrade: World's Largest Crow
- Belle Plaine: Two-Story Outhouse
- Bemidji: Boxy Bunyan and Babe Statues
- Bemidji: Chief Bemidji Statue
- Bemidji: Fireplace of States
- Bemidji: Large Leaping Deer
- Bemidji: Nanobouzou, Bunyan's Muffler Man Foe
- Bemidji: Niiemii - Dancing Indian
- Bena: Big Fish Supper Club
- Bena: Big Winnie Store: 1932 Crazy Gas Station
- Big Falls: Uncle Dan Campbell Statue
- Bigfork: Logger and Wannigan
- Bigfork: Lumberjack Statue
- Bigfork: Quirky Indian Chief Statue
- Bigfork: See Birch Bark Canoes Made
- Birchdale: Basshenge
- Biwabik: Bavarian-Themed Town
- Biwabik: Honk the Moose
- Blackduck: Black Duck - Drake Motel
- Blackduck: Original Black Duck Statue
- Blackduck: World's Largest Black Duck Statue
- Bloomington: Big L.L. Bean Boot
- Bloomington: Harmon Killebrew Homer Tribute Chair
- Bloomington: The Mall of America
- Blue Earth: Eastbound: The Golden Stripe
- Blue Earth: Jolly Green Giant
- Blue Earth: Jolly Green Giant Museum
- Blue Earth: Sprout: Former Papa Burger
- Blue Earth: Westbound: The Golden Stripe
- Bongards: Bonnie the Big Cow
- Brainerd: Babe the Blue Ox
- Brainerd: Crenelated Water Tower - Bunyan's Flashlight
- Brainerd: Giant Sitting, Talking Paul Bunyan
- Brainerd: Jurassic Auto Wash Dinosaurs
- Brainerd: Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
- Brainerd: Paul Bunyan's Footsteps
- Brainerd: Stick Your Head in the Lion Mouth
- Brainerd: Welcome Center Paul Bunyan
- Breezy Point: Stainless Steel Moose
- Buffalo: Giant Wooden Nickel
- Buffalo: Normassic Park
- Center City: Cheese-N-Bison Munchables
- Center City: Grumpy Old Men Church
- Champlin: Dress-Up Sinclair Dinosaur
- Chandler: Collapsed "In God We Trust" Water Tank Tornado Memorial
- Chanhassen: Giant Purple Face of Prince
- Chanhassen: Prince's Paisley Park
- Chatfield: Farmer on a Stump
- Chisholm: Huge Iron Man Statue
- Chisholm: Paul Bunyan's Marble
- Chokio: Ruins of Frank Schott's Stone Barn
- Clarks Grove: Big Bass Fish
- Climax: James K. Polk Memorial
- Cloquet: Bi-Plane in Theater Wall
- Cloquet: Big Voyageur Statue
- Cloquet: Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station
- Cloquet: Large Dala Horse
- Coates: Quirky Metal Sculptures
- Cokato: Oldest Sauna in North America
- Cold Spring: Grasshopper Assumption Chapel
- Colvill: Messy Art Yard
- Cosmos: Cosmic-Themed Town
- Cosmos: Tree Stump Yoda
- Crane Lake: Big Voyageur Statue
- Crookston: Large Ox Cart, Ox, and Man
- Crookston: World's Largest Ox Cart
- Crosby: Serpent Lake Serpent Statue
- Cuyuna: Wood Tick Races
- Darwin: Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
- Dassel: Ergot Museum
- Dassel: Mushroom Building
- Dawson: Gnometown, USA
- Dawson: Tiny Church
- Deer Creek: Deer Statue
- Deer River: Northern Pike Statue
- Deerwood: Big Leaping Deer
- Delano: Big Chicken
- Detroit Lakes: Becker County Museum Oddities
- Detroit Lakes: Huge Kid Reading a Book
- Downer: Shoe Fence
- Duluth: Bob Dylan's Boyhood Home
- Duluth: Buffalo Statue
- Duluth: Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial
- Duluth: Famous Aerial Lift Bridge
- Duluth: Lake Superior Railroad Museum
- Duluth: Leif Erickson Viking Ship
- Duluth: Statue of Viking Leif Erikson
- Duluth: The Great Catsby
- Eden Prairie: Minnesota Vikings Ship
- Effie: Homemade Mosquito Statue
- Elbow Lake: Big Folk Art: Jesus, Troll, Earth Eagle
- Ely: Cabin of the Root Beer Lady
- Ely: International Wolf Center
- Ely: North American Bear Center
- Ely: Pillow Rocks
- Emmaville: Emmaville Store, Population 4
- Erskine: Indian Lady Made of Cement
- Erskine: World's Largest Northern (a fish)
- Eveleth: Paul Wellstone Memorial
- Eveleth: Shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes
- Eveleth: World's Largest Free-Standing Hockey Stick
- Excelsior: Bench for "You Can't Always Get What You Want" Man
- Fairmont: Southern MN Music, Linda McCartney's Meatless Frozen Entrees
- Falcon Heights: Fairchild the State Fair Gopher
- Falcon Heights: Giant Pioneer Woman
- Faribault: A&W Papa Burger
- Faribault: Giant Ants on Roof
- Faribault: Tilt-a-Whirl Invented Here
- Fergus Falls: Big Ship
- Fergus Falls: Broken Down Dam
- Fergus Falls: Closed Insane Asylum
- Fergus Falls: Continental Divide Tripod
- Fergus Falls: Fire Station Sculpture
- Fergus Falls: Indoor Minnesota-Shaped Swimming Pool
- Fergus Falls: Large Canada Goose
- Fergus Falls: Otto the Big Otter
- Fergus Falls: Spartan Statue
- Finland: Tree Trunk St. Urho
- Foley: Grain Bin Sculptures
- Forest Lake: Playground Dragon
- Fosston: Cordwood Pete and Tamarack
- Fosston: Wayside Chapel - Tiny Church
- Fountain: Two-Headed Calf, Padlock of Viking Leif Ericson
- Franconia: Franconia Sculpture Park
- Franklin: Catfish Capital of Minnesota
- Frazee: Big Tom: World's Largest Turkey
- Frazee: Original Big Turkey
- Freeport: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Garrison: Mermaid Lady of the North Shore
- Garrison: Wally Walleye
- Glenwood: Big Wooden Hand
- Glyndon: Large Cement Dog
- Golden Valley: 45th Parallel Rock and Signpost
- Good Thunder: Lillo's Metal Art: Eiffel Tower, Firing Rifle, Jesse James
- Grand Marais: Canoehead Sign
- Grand Marais: Giant Fish Crashing Through Building
- Grand Marais: Naniboujou Painted Lodge
- Grand Meadow: Largest Dome School in Minnesota
- Grand Rapids: Bunyan's Adirondack Chair
- Grand Rapids: Judy Garland Museum and Birthplace Home
- Grand Rapids: Skeletal Scrap Metal Moose
- Granite Falls: Fagen Fighters WWII Museum
- Granite Falls: World's Oldest Rock
- Hackensack: Paul Bunyan Jr.
- Hackensack: Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart Lucette
- Halstad: World's Largest Sugar Beet
- Hampton: Cambodian Buddhist Temple
- Hampton: Vikings, Beach Dude, Gorilla
- Harmony: Niagara Cave
- Henderson: Purple Tribute to Prince
- Henning: Large Stethoscope
- Hibbing: Bob Dylan's Teenage Home
- Hibbing: Greyhound Bus Museum
- Hibbing: Hull Rust Mahoning Mineview
- Hibbing: Paper Mache Statue of Bob Dylan
- Hill City: Big Bear Statue
- Hinckley: Great Hinckley Fire Museum and Mass Grave
- Holdingford: Quirky Metal Art Scenes
- Hopkins: World's Largest Raspberry
- Hutchinson: Death Spot of Little Crow
- Hutchinson: Statue of the Singing Hutchinson Brothers
- International Falls: Big Smokey Bear
- International Falls: Big Statue of Bronko Nagurski
- International Falls: Fisherman Statue
- Inver Grove Heights: B-52 Crash Site
- Isle: Big Fish Statue - Walleye
- Isle: Mean Muskie and Walleye
- Isle: Plywood Paul Bunyan and Babe
- Jacobson: Chief Wrinkle Meat
- Jarrett: Jarrett Rock Garden
- Jasper: Outdoor Collection of Windmills
- Jordan: Minnesota's Largest Candy Store
- Kabetogama: Ellsworth Rock Garden
- Kabetogama: Leapin' Walleye Fish Photo Op
- Karlstad: "Moose Capital of the North" Moose Statue
- Karlstad: Gas Station Moose
- Karlstad: Muffler Man: Bunyan with Guitar
- Kasota: Drive A Tank
- Kelliher: Paul Bunyan's Grave
- Kellogg: Large Cowboy Boot
- Kellogg: Lark Toys
- Kensington: Replica of Runestone at Discovery Spot
- Lake City: Statue: Inventor of Waterskis
- Lake George: The Original Wigwam
- Lakeville: F-86H Sabre Jet
- Lakeville: Hot Sam's: Big Weird Junk
- Lawler: Troll Bar Stools
- Le Sueur: Green Giant Sign
- Le Sueur: Old Brewery Hill Spook Light
- Lindstrom: Meat Market Wiener
- Lindstrom: Swedish Coffee Pot Water Tower
- Little Falls: Traveler: Man of Rocks
- Littlefork: Jack Pine Savage
- Long Beach: Tiny Church
- Long Prairie: Iwo Jima in Steel and Other Tributes
- Longville: Big Chicken on a Roof
- Longville: Bruno the Town Dog
- Longville: Turtle Race Capital of the World
- Luverne: Nutcrackers of Luverne
- Luverne: Tiny Church
- Madison: World's Largest Lutefisk
- Mankato: Largest U.S. Mass Hanging Site
- Mankato: Last Happy Chef
- Marietta: Salt Lake...of Minnesota!
- McIntosh: Concrete Lion
- Menahga: Menahga Area Museum: St. Urho and Wally Wood
- Menahga: Saint Urho: Grasshopper Vanquisher
- Milaca: Cartoon Fireplugs of Milaca
- Milan: Liberty Bell, Viking, and Mural
- Milan: Norwegian Stabbur House
- Millerville: Our Lady of the Hills: Big Virgin Mary
- Minneapolis: Big Rooster
- Minneapolis: Brick Head
- Minneapolis: Giant Molecule
- Minneapolis: Golden Glove
- Minneapolis: Grave of VP Hubert Humphrey
- Minneapolis: House of Balls
- Minneapolis: Huge Bottle Cap
- Minneapolis: Kaleidoscopic Mural of Bob Dylan
- Minneapolis: Lake of the Isles Pencil
- Minneapolis: Lizard Lounge
- Minneapolis: Mari's Place - Yard Art from Junk
- Minneapolis: Mary Tyler Moore Statue
- Minneapolis: Mary Tyler Moore's TV Home
- Minneapolis: Max Rabitat: Big Art Rabbit
- Minneapolis: Minneapolis Sputnik Collection
- Minneapolis: Prince Mural, Eight Stories High
- Minneapolis: Purple Head of Prince
- Minneapolis: Quietest Place on Earth
- Minneapolis: Return Journey Rocket
- Minneapolis: Rock Men - Courthouse Creatures
- Minneapolis: Saturn Sculpture
- Minneapolis: Showmen's Rest Cemetery
- Minneapolis: Spoonbridge and Cherry
- Minneapolis: Statue of Goldy Gopher
- Minneapolis: T-Rex Attacks a Car
- Minneapolis: The Elf Tree
- Minneapolis: The Minnehaha Bunny
- Minneapolis: Tiny Tim's Star, and Others
- Minneapolis: Tiny Tim's Tomb
- Minneapolis: Twelve Vultures Curiosity Shop
- Minneapolis: Urban Shoe Tree
- Minneapolis: Viking Sponsor Ship
- Minneapolis: White Castle Jewelry Store
- Minneapolis: Witch Hat Water Tower
- Minneapolis: World's Only Washington Monument Skyscraper
- Minnetrista: Sculpture Park Mini Golf
- Monticello: Rusty Stagecoach Robbery
- Moorhead: Replica of 12th Century Norway Church
- Moorhead: Viking Ship Replica
- Moorhead: World's Largest Dilly Bar
- Moose Lake: Forest Fire Mass Grave Monument
- Moose Lake: Moose Statue
- Mora: 22-Foot-Tall Dala Horse
- Morristown: Talking Moose
- Mound: Big Crows Made of Tires
- Mountain Lake: Burger Family
- Nevis: Heart of Minnesota Emu Ranch Tours
- Nevis: World's Largest Tiger Muskie
- New Prague: Large Panfish Statue
- New Ulm: Big Footprint of Hermann the German
- New Ulm: Glockenspiel Clock Tower
- New Ulm: Hermann the German
- New Ulm: Schell's - German Brewery Fun
- New York Mills: Tractor Sculpture, Other Scrap Art
- Nisswa: Original Home of the Turtle Races
- Nodine: Culvert Man
- North Mankato: 10-Foot-Tall Steel Godzilla
- North St. Paul: World's Largest Stucco Snowman
- Northfield: Last Bank Jesse James Tried to Rob
- Northome: Towering Bear
- Ogilvie: Rusty the Dragon
- Olivia: Giant Corn Gazebo
- Orr: Big Bluegill Fish Statue
- Ortonville: Paul Bunyan's Anchor
- Ottertail: Otto the Clown
- Ottertail: Ten-Foot-Tall Otter
- Owatonna: Cabela's: Dead Animals in Big Store
- Owatonna: Three T-38 Jets Statue
- Park Rapids: Large Neglected Loon
- Park Rapids: Mississippi River Starts Here
- Pelican Rapids: World's Largest Pelican
- Pennington: Horrible Bear
- Pequot Lakes: Beanhole Days: Burying of the Beans
- Pequot Lakes: Fishing Bobber Water Tower
- Pequot Lakes: Paul Bunyan Statue
- Pequot Lakes: Paul Bunyans Chair
- Perham: Large Playground Turtle, Town Turtle Races
- Pine City: Stainless Native, Swamping Canoe
- Pine City: Tall Voyageur Statue
- Pine River: Paul Bunyan's Baby Booties
- Pine River: Paul Bunyan's Boots, Now Footprints
- Pipestone: Big Peace Pipe
- Pipestone: Concrete Water Tower
- Pipestone: The Old Stone Face
- Plainview: Big Bull Statue
- Plymouth: Commercial Diver Memorial
- Preston: Huge Trout Statue
- Preston: Two-Way Oldsmobile
- Princeton: A-Z Happy Chef
- Prior Lake: Casino Teepee of Light
- Proctor: F-101 Jet on a Stick
- Proctor: Front Yard Titanic
- Ranier: Big Vic: Voyageur Statue
- Rapidan: Rapidan Dam Store - That Dam Humor
- Red Lake: Giant Eagle Buildings
- Red Lake: Large Eagle Sculpture
- Red Wing: Aliveo Military Museum
- Red Wing: Horse Made of Scrap Metal
- Red Wing: World's Largest Boot
- Remer: Big Bald Eagle
- Remer: Home of Bigfoot
- Rochester: Ear of Corn Water Tower
- Rochester: Giant Medical Scooter
- Rochester: Transparent Man
- Rockville: Bass Fish Statue
- Rockville: Twin Towers Relic: One of the Last
- Rothsay: World's Largest "Booming" Prairie Chicken
- Royalton: Man-Eating Clam
- Rush City: World's Largest Walleye
- Saint Peter: Saint Peter's Pearly Gates
- Sanborn: Tour the Sod House
- Sauk Centre: Glowing Tombstone
- Schroeder: Father Baraga's Boat Miracle
- Sedan: Toaster Tree
- Shakopee: Sever's Corn Maze
- Shoreview: 1920s Texaco Gas Station
- Silver Bay: Rocky Taconite
- Sleepy Eye: Cow-Reindeer Statue and Odd Mailbox
- Sleepy Eye: The Real Linus Statue
- Soudan: Deepest Place You Can Go In America
- Spring Grove: Troll, Viking, and Bear
- Spring Valley: Indian Statue
- Squaw Lake: Large Canada Goose
- St. Bonifacius: Nike Hercules Missile
- St. Cloud: Two-Headed Pig
- St. Louis Park: Beehive Fireplace
- St. Louis Park: Roller Garden with Dinosaur
- St. Paul: Big Bronze Peanuts Comics Characters
- St. Paul: Big Golden Eagle
- St. Paul: Birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- St. Paul: Can Can Wonderland: Mini-Golf
- St. Paul: Changsha Friendship Pagoda
- St. Paul: Famous Mickey's Dining Car
- St. Paul: Forgotten Joyce Kilmer Memorial Fireplace
- St. Paul: Giant Braille Book
- St. Paul: Hand-Carved Statue of Liberty
- St. Paul: Humphrey the Happy Warrior
- St. Paul: Large Green Chair
- St. Paul: Minnesota's Mummified Monkey
- St. Paul: Smallest Museum in Minnesota
- St. Paul: Twin City Model Railroad Museum
- St. Paul: Wabasha Street Caves Tour
- St. Paul: Western Sculpture Park
- St. Stephen: Big Bed
- Starbuck: Big Hobo, Starbuck, Largest Lefse Sign
- Stephen: UFO Smashed Car Here
- Thief River Falls: Chief Moose Dung Statue
- Tower: World's First Memorial to Slain McKinley
- Two Harbors: Big Peter Toth Indian Head
- Two Harbors: Carved Tree Trunk Voyageur
- Two Harbors: Large Rooster
- Two Harbors: Pierre the Pantsless Voyageur
- Two Harbors: Sandpaper Museum
- Two Harbors: Sleep in a Boxcar
- Vergas: World's Largest Loon
- Viking: Tin Farmer Man
- Vining: Ken Nyberg's Workshop
- Vining: Nyberg Sculpture Park
- Vining: The Big Foot
- Virginia: Big Uncle Sam
- Virginia: Sawed-Off Sawyer Sculpture
- Virginia: World's Largest Floating Loon
- Wabasso: Large White Rabbit
- Walker: Circle of Time
- Walker: Paul Bunyan's Guest House
- Walnut Grove: Laura Ingalls Wilder Sod Hut Spot
- Warren: Car Smashed By UFO
- Wasioja: Seminary Ruins, Civil War Memorial and Recruiting Station
- Welcome: Horse and Human Drinking Fountain
- West St. Paul: Smallest Dedicated Park in the United States
- West Union: Limo Buried Hood-First in a Field
- West Union: Metal Farm Animals
- Wheaton: Big Mallard
- White Bear Lake: Large Polar Bear
- Willmar: Golden Chief Kandiyohi Statue
- Willmar: Great Northern Locomotive
- Windom: Curt's Aluminum Statues
- Winger: Polar Bear and Dead Seal
- Winona: Fort Ticonderoga Tombstone
- Winton: Lumberjack Statue
- Wrenshall: World's Largest Former White Stag
- Wykoff: Ed's Museum
- Wykoff: Jail Haus Bed & Breakfast
- Wyoming: Happy Chef, Now a Pizza Chef
- Wyoming: Tow Mater and Sheriff
- Zumbrota: Only Covered Bridge in Minnesota
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Albert Lea: Farmer - Pitchfork Pete
- Austin: Berenstain Bears Museum
- Baxter: Bowling Bunyan and Babe
- Blaine: Space Aliens Grill & Bar
- Brainerd: 1930s Paul Bunyan and Babe Statue
- Brainerd: Wild Things Hay Bales
- Chisholm: Pellet Pete
- Crosslake: Cartoony Tiki Man
- Dawson: Pink Elephant With Oil Drum Head
- Detroit Lakes: 25-Sport Fishing Pole
- Duluth: Steven Seagull, Polite Knocker
- Elk River: Dinosaur - Triceratops
- Elk River: Giant Ladle Fountain
- Faribault: Tin Man Family
- Floodwood: Carved Wooden Catfish
- Glenwood: Pottyville - Outhouse Collection
- Grand Rapids: Toilet Bowl Gardens
- Grand Rapids: Wizard of Oz Mural
- Harmony: Slim's Woodshed: America's Largest Woodcarving Museum
- Herman: Herman Iron Pour
- Hibbing: Zimmy's - Dylan-themed Restaurant
- Jackson: Museum of Deth: Megadeth Coffee Shop
- Janesville: Frankenstein Monster
- Le Sueur: Old Jolly Green Giant Signs
- Lutsen: Tin Man and Metal Sculptures
- Minneapolis: Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
- Montgomery: Big Honza's Museum of Unnatural History
- Mounds View: 30-Foot-Tall Mermaid
- Nisswa: Babe the Blue Ox
- Onamia: Bull Statue (Gone)
- Orr: Big Wooden Chair
- Owatonna: Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
- Owatonna: Warrior King Jesus on a White Stallion
- Pelland Junction: Willy the Worm
- Pequot Lakes: Pizza Sphinx
- Spring Lake Park: Goony Golf
- Spring Valley: A&W Papa Burger
- Spring Valley: Three Stooges Chainsaw Carvings
- St. Paul: Bird of Goodwill
- St. Peter: Soderlund Pharmacy Museum
- Virginia: Mineview in the Sky
- Wabasha: Joe Suilman's Museum
- Wabasha: Tow Mater
- Waite Park: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Zimmerman: The Sinking Barn
- Zumbrota: Obama's Pie Stop
