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.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

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.

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

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

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

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.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

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

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

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

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

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.