Sheboygan, Wisconsin
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.
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Sheboygan, Wisconsin
A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.
Shell Lake, Wisconsin
The world's largest woodcarving collection includes dozens of Bible scenes and a wooden bestiary, all carved by one man.
Madison, Wisconsin
A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.
Fountain City, Wisconsin
A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.
Argyle, Wisconsin
A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.
Sparta, Wisconsin
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.
Audubon, Iowa
The World's Largest Bull.
Eldon, Iowa
Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.
West Bend, Iowa
A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.
Catoosa, Oklahoma
It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Marianna, Arkansas
One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.
Fayetteville, Arkansas
An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.
Alma, Arkansas
Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.