Identify Iconic Rochester Landmarks From A Bird's-Eye View

You’ve driven past these Rochester, Minnesota, landmarks hundreds of times, but would you recognize them from straight above? Take the challenge and see how many familiar Med City spots you can name from a bird’s-eye view.

Seeing as Rochester is the third-largest city in the entire state of Minnesota-- and the largest outside of the Twin Cities metro, here's a chance to prove your local street cred. And location cred, too.

Rochester Minnesota Landmarks You Should Know

Rochester is filled with historical landmarks, many thanks to our fair city having been home to the world-famous Mayo Clinic for over 150 years. That's a distinction not many similar-sized cities here in the North Star State, or across the country, can claim.

Whether you're up on your local history or not, many landmarks across the Land of 10,000 Lakes and here in Rochester are fairly well-known. From the Ear of Corn water tower to the iconic Mayo Clinic Plummer Building on 2nd Street, we can pick our local scenes fairly easily when we see them.

Can You Identify Rochester From a Bird’s-Eye View?

But what about from directly ABOVE them? Thanks to Google Maps and its satellite photography, we now have a direct overhead view of just about all of Rochester's well-known landmarks.