Places TheWanderBroad Wants to Go

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

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

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

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

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

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.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

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

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

"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.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

Pizza with a side of fine art.