Places Raedar Wants to Go

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

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

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

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

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

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

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

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

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

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

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