Places ibcarlene Wants to Go

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

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

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

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

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

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

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

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

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

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

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