Minnesota’s Great River Road Trip

Explore the Mississippi's natural beauty, outdoor recreation, historic destinations, & quirky stops along Minnesota's Great River Road trip.
Explore the Mississippi's natural beauty, outdoor recreation, historic destinations, & quirky stops along Minnesota's Great River Road trip.
Catch a selfie by the statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox in Bemidji along Minnesota's Great River Road following the Mississippi.
The Meow Wolf art collective births an extended universe of immersive art and interactive storytelling across New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado with more to come.
Explore alien worlds through Meow Wolf's Convergence Station, your local QDOT terminal and immersive art installation in Denver, Colorado.
Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return is an immersive art installation and retro-futuristic alternative reality in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For all the craft of Hollywood, the ingenuity of Silicon Valley, the eloquence of authors painting the images of alien terrains in our mind's eye, we have not been able to touch these bizarre and fantastical worlds of imagination. And yet, in an industrial corner of Las Vegas, a collective of artists have created a captivating dystopian parallel universe known as Omega Mart. And we can poke and prod every corner of it. In fact, that's the point.
Strange things happen in the desert. It is a place of extreme temperatures and temperaments. It is a place of rugged self-sufficiency and creative invention born of necessity. Those that survive here are the outliers. And in the remote outskirts of the Nevada desert, along the border of Death Valley National Park, is one of the strangest destinations we have encountered: the Goldwell Open Air Museum.
Devil's Golf Course is host to large rugged halite salt crystal formations in Badwater Basin on the floor of Death Valley National Park.
Call it quicksilver, cinnabar, or mercury. Texas's Big Bend National Park once produced a quarter of this malleable metal for the USA at the Mariscal Mine.
Most people come to Vermilion Cliffs National Monument for the geology. The sheer red cliffs are unique, but so is some of the wildlife. California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) are the largest land birds in North America, but their population is…