South Dakota

You may be shocked to learn that you don't have to cross the border to begin seeing signs for Wall Drug.

In short, if you don't want to pay and arm and a leg for your alcohol, travel to WI, SD or ND to stock up and bring it back with you!

According to Roadside America, Salt Lake in Marietta is not only the only alkaline lake in Minnesota, but it's the only salty body of water between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake in Utah!

I dug up photos of Minnesota's surrounding neighbor-states' welcome signs to compare and rank for myself. Here's what I determined.

Lists like this are always subject, so take it with a grain of salt.

Here are six things a merging of North and South Dakota would mean to us here in Minnesota.