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A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

A remote island marking the entrance to Death’s Door, surrounded by the bones of ships who failed to heed her warnings.

This massive 286,200-tile mosaic was the largest mural of its kind in the United States and is an early example of computer-generated art.

Gas station bathrooms adorned with one of the world’s most infamous typefaces, with quotes ranging from lewd to profound.

Wisconsin’s oldest Chinese restaurant, still glowing beneath its historic neon sign.

A young artist's storefront brings eldritch horrors to small-town America.

The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

This rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades.

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

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

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

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

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

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.