Wisconsin Offbeat Attraction Map
RoadsideAmerica.com's map of Wisconsin's unusual tourist attractions, museums, and landmarks.
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 Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near WisconsinWhile in Wisconsin, you might enjoy a visit to: It's the circus that came to town and never left, with memorabilia, yes, but also with wandering clowns and a deafening steam calliope. For 25 years retired farmer Herman Rusch built odd sculptures around his similarly odd museum. It's folk art -- and it's been preserved. Russian's Mir Space Station is a sight, but what happened to all the little robots? This museum opened in 1998 in the old St. Paul's Catholic Church, renovated to exhibit the World's Largest Collection of Angels. Where a Soviet satellite smacked down; a replica piece of space junk is at the local art museum. A non-denominational, backyard collection of concrete and glass sculptures in rural Wisconsin. Skinny steel 9-11 tribute to Manhattan's destroyed twin towers. Deke was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, and even though he never got to the moon, his museum has a chunk of it on display. |