Places vonbuxter Wants to Go

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

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

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

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

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

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

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

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

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

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

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

The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.