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

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

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

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

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

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

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

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

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

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.