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

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

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

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

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

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

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

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A science teacher's dream.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

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

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.