Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mary Nohl House
A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Cochrane, Wisconsin
Suncrest Gardens Pizza Farm
Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.
Rockford, Illinois
Rockmen Guardians
The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.
Mount Carroll, Illinois
Raven's Grin Inn
Former hotel turned into haunted playground.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
EAA's AirVenture Oshkosh
One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.
Freeport, Illinois
Silver Creek and Stephenson Railroad
The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.
Permanently Closed
Beloit, Wisconsin
Angel Museum
The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.
Decorah, Iowa
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.
Madison, Wisconsin
Lost City Forest
The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.
Baraboo, Wisconsin
Man Mound
The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.
Boscastle, England
The Museum of Witchcraft & Magic
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Permanently Closed
District of Columbia
Museum of Unnatural History
Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.
Washington, D.C.
International Temple of the Order of the Eastern Star
Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.
Washington, D.C.
Catacombs of Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.
Washington, D.C.
Capital Transit Co. Streetcar Barn
Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.
Washington, D.C.
Uncle Beazley the Triceratops
A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.
Washington, D.C.
National Cathedral Bell Tower
There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.
Washington, D.C.
Washington Coliseum
A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.
Washington, D.C.
Frederick Douglass’s House, Cedar Hill
The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.
Washington, D.C.
FBI Spy House
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Washington, D.C.
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.
Washington, D.C.
Riggs Library
A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.
Washington, D.C.
The Dupont Underground
Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.
Washington, D.C.
Space Window at the Washington National Cathedral
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
