An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.

A surprisingly large number of show waterski teams are located here in Wisconsin.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

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.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

Three playfully immersive mini golf courses let you travel alongside your ball to the cup at this facility, which has been around since the 1950s.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

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

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

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

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

This millstone-topped marker details the history of a mill that served as a landmark for both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.

In 1932, Americans honored their first president's 200th birthday by planting trees.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

America's first federal monument.