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This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

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

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

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

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

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

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

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

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

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

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

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

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

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

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

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

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

A 12-century Shiva temple nestled along a picturesque riverbank.

The 700-year old burial mounds of the Ahom Kingdom.