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Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

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Wabasha Street Caves

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

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Ax-Man Surplus

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

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Center for Lost Objects

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

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Marjorie McNeely Conservatory (Como Park)

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

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Birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

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Studio Payne Art Gallery and Oddities Shop

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

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Vision of Peace (Indian God of Peace)

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

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