Places heymarykate Wants to Go

Expansive and colorful studio of Minneapolis art-star, Doug Padilla.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

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

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

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

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

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.