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

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

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

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

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

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

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.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

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

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

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

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

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

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

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

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.