Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

The remnants of this Douglas fir predate Columbus's arrival in North America.

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.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

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

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

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

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

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

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

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.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

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

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

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