Grand Rounds Scenic Byway
Sculpture Gardens and Loring Park, MN

Everyone can enjoy a visit to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, because in addition to showcasing the biggest and sturdiest of the Walker collection, it's a place for blooms and birds, naps and aimless reverie.

A joint effort of the Walker and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, the garden proper is 11 acres, though it also spans multiple lanes of traffic via the Irene Hixon Whitney bridge.

The southernmost portion of the garden is dominated by four arborvitae-walled "galleries" housing permanent and temporary works. To the southeast, Jenny Holzer's oddly brilliant installation of 28 granite benches (1989), inscribed with invented truisms, amuses and provokes readers.

Even if you wanted to, you couldn't miss Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, husband and wife.