Shell Lake, Wisconsin
Museum of Woodcarving
The world's largest woodcarving collection includes dozens of Bible scenes and a wooden bestiary, all carved by one man.
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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
Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.
Madison, Wisconsin
The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.
Monico, Wisconsin
Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.
Peshtigo, Wisconsin
A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.
Washington, Wisconsin
The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.
Madison, Wisconsin
A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.
Madison, Wisconsin
A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.
Madison, Wisconsin
Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin
A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.
Waukesha, Wisconsin
A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.
Appleton, Wisconsin
This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.
Belleville, Wisconsin
Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.
Ladysmith, Wisconsin
A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.
Hayward, Wisconsin
Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.
Washington, Wisconsin
Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.
Washington Island, Wisconsin
This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.
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.