There’s one guy who wants to visit each one of the 800 communities in Minnesota in only a year. His name is Seth Varner, and he joins us via Zoom to share more about Wandermore.

EMPIRE TOWNSHIP, Minn. -- A new addition is coming to the map of Minnesota. Empire is a township in Dakota County that's on track to become the state's newest city at the end of the month. The change ...

At MPR News, Dan Kraker reports, “The names of many lakes, rivers and cities across northern Minnesota have roots in the Ojibwe language — Bemidji, for example, is derived from the word bemijigamaag ...

Like a modern Marco Polo of the Midwest, or the Ibn Battuta of Interstate 35, Varner says he’s driven by the compulsion to capture the essence of the cities, big and small, that he visits. “There’s ...