A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

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.

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

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

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

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

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

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

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

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

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

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

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

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.