Places Amandala Wants to Go

Walk up a ramp through a forest for panoramic views of Lake Michigan.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

Built in 1933, this unique ballroom is nicknamed the "floating dance floor."

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

Expansive and colorful studio of Minneapolis art-star, Doug Padilla.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

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

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.