Phillips, Wisconsin
Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park
An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.
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Phillips, Wisconsin
An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
One extremely determined man's homemade universe.
Hayward, Wisconsin
143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.
Neillsville, Wisconsin
The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.
Ladysmith, Wisconsin
A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.
Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin
A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.
Washington, Wisconsin
The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.
Seymour, Wisconsin
A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.
Fountain City, Wisconsin
Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”
New Franken, Wisconsin
In 1859, the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared in this small town.
Elkhorn, Wisconsin
It is the location of a string of sightings of a “werewolf” or “wolfman” from the early 1970s to the late ‘90s, now known as the Beast of Bray Road.
Niles, Michigan
A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.
Owatonna, Minnesota
Preserving the story of an early 20th-century orphanage.
Montrose, South Dakota
A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.
Luverne, Minnesota
Home to one of the world’s largest nutcracker collections and other historical curiosities.
Potter, Nebraska
This old-school soda shop is the home of the Tin Roof Sundae, a concoction dripping in chocolate, marshmallow, and peanuts.
Hastings, Nebraska
The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Harrison, Nebraska
Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Springfield, Missouri
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.
Verona, Wisconsin
Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.