Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

A surprisingly large number of show waterski teams are located here in Wisconsin.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

Built in 1933, this unique ballroom is nicknamed the "floating dance floor."

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

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

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

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

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

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.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

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

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.

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

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

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

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

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.