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This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

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

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

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

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

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!"

Housed inside a former munitions plant that was once one of the largest in the country.

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

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

This small canyon is home to a treasure trove of geological oddities.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

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

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

A large circus museum with summer performances.

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

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

A large collection of motorbikes with some impressive gems.

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

This midcentury chapel is a bold architectural statement and a symbol of Indiana's Lutheran heritage.