Places jacieferguson228 Wants to Go

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This century-old barn is home to a homey, eclectic film festival.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

Artist Scott Hocking took a dilapidated 1890s barn to create his massive "Barnboat."

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

In 1859, the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared in this small town.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

World's largest pet casket company brings in up to $5 million per year in revenue.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.