Places Avalon Wants to Go

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

Experience the life of an 1800's lumberjack at this interactive museum that is only accessible by railroad.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

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

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

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

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

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

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

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.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

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

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.