What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

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

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

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

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

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

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

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

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

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

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

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

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

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

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

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

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

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.