Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Tile mosaics and quotes from Pablo Picasso add an artistic flair to these bus stop benches.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

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

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

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

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

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

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.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

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

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

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

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

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A factory in Milwaukee where poop is reclaimed… and recycled.