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

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

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

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

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

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

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

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

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

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

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

You can still shop in one of West Virginia’s oldest stores.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.