Places ajsue Wants to Go

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

The world's largest woodcarving collection includes dozens of Bible scenes and a wooden bestiary, all carved by one man.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

A mother’s sweet tradition lives on with this unique memorial.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.