As we travel across the state on the Museums of Minnesota adventure, we are uncovering a wealth of interesting.....   well, "things!"  - for want of a better word. Curiosities that we would like you our visitors to know about - but sites that are not museums. We have called this page "Monuments & Curiosities" but really it will be the home for anything and everything that we feel is noteworthy and certainly different.

Please check back to this page often since we will be regularly updating it with new discoveries.

We invite you to to read more using the links below:

Mousenik Launch Site

 In 1957 three Pacelli High School students launched a four-foot, 10-inch rocket into the air, with a rodent, named Ulysses, as its sole passenger, according to a 1957 AP report.  (read more)