Places Zesra Wants to Go

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

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

Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.