Places
- Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (northern MN) - one million acres and over 1,000 miles of canoe waterways
- Duluth (Duluth) - location of the country's largest inland harbor
- First Avenue (Minneapolis) - music club enshrined in the film Purple Rain
- Foshay Tower (Minneapolis) - tallest building in Minneapolis until 1971
- Frank Lloyd Wright designed gas station (Cloquet) - built in 1956
- Grand Portage National Monument (Grand Portage) - reconstructed sites celebrates fur trade and the Ojibwe lifestyle
- Great Lakes Aquarium (Duluth) - the first and only all-freshwater aquarium in the US
- Greyhound Bus Museum (Hibbing) - birthplace of the American bus industry
- Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis) - nationally renowned theater opened in 1963
- Hazelden (Center City) - leading alcohol & drug rehabilitation center in the country
- Hull Rust Mahoning Mine (Hibbing) - biggest operating open pit iron ore mine in the world
- International Wolf Center (Ely) - unique organization to support the survival of the wolf through education
- Johanna Kiln (Collegeville) - St. John's University has the largest wood burning kiln in the US
- Lake Pepin (Lake Pepin) - a 22 mile-long lake on the Mississippi River
- Lake Superior (Great Lakes) - the largest freshwater lake in the world by area borders the state
- Lakewood Cemetery Memorial Chapel (Minneapolis) - Byzantine mosaic art make this chapel a hidden gem
- Little House on the Prairie site (Walnut Grove) - along the banks of Plum Creek; see Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Mall of America (Bloomington) - largest mall in the US
- Mankato (Mankato) - site of largest mass execution in US history when 38 Dakota Indians were hanged in 1862
- Mayo Clinic (Rochester) - the world-renowned medical practice has served a king and a president
- Metrodome (Minneapolis) - only facility to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and a NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship
- Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (Minneapolis) - the largest urban sculpture garden in the US
- Minnesota State Fair (St. Paul) - the second largest state fair in the US
- North House Folk School (Grand Marais) - traditional northern crafts school inspired by the Scandinavian "folkehøjskole"
- Orfield Labs (Minneapolis) - listed as the quietest place on Earth in Guinness World Records
- Paisley Park (Chanhassen) - Prince's former home and studio space
- Pipestone National Monument (Pipestone) - quarry site for the stone to make ceremonial pipes by anyone of Indian ancestry
- Red River (ND and MN) - forms the North Dakota and Minnesota border and flows north! to Lake Winnepeg
- Sister Kenny Institute (Minneapolis) - est. in 1942 to help polio patients and grew into a physical therapy center
- Source of the Mississippi River (Lake Itasca) - the second largest river in the US starts in what is now a state park
- Southdale (Edina) - first enclosed shopping mall in US opened in 1956
- St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River (Minneapolis) - location of first hydroelectric station in the US
- St. Paul (St. Paul) - once known as "Poison Spot of American Crime"
- The Bakken (Minneapolis) - a library and museum of electricity. See Earl Bakken
- The Loft (Minneapolis) - literary center with a national reputation
- The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (St. Paul) - a collection of medical quackery
- US Hockey Hall of Fame (Eveleth) - a shrine to the puck-on-ice game
- Voyageurs National Park (northern MN) - a water based park named for the French-Canadian canoe-men