Places that1uplife Wants to Go

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

The property contains 37 preserved animal effigy mounds constructed by Native Americans between 800-1100.

Wisconsin’s oldest Chinese restaurant, still glowing beneath its historic neon sign.

A young artist's storefront brings eldritch horrors to small-town America.

The tunnel that runs beneath this former inn was once a hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.

A glacial erratic in the shape of a foot rests in the woods of a restored oak savanna prairie.

The only Native American intaglio left in Wisconsin.

The final resting place of the father of American beekeeping.

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

Do you think your job stinks? Welcome to the only Limburger cheese plant in America.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.