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

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

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

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

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

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.

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

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

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

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

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

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

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

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

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

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

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.