Wisconsin
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Lake Delton Reappears, Ski Show Fans Rejoice
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Featured Attractions
FAST Fiberglass Statue Factory
Sparta, Wisconsin
Stroll the mold field, afterbirth of America's prolific statue maker.
Ghost Outpost
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Competition spurs innovation in the gory melee of Dells haunted houses.
Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bicycle Museum
Sparta, Wisconsin
Eclectic displays on local astronaut, moon rock, and bicycles.
Wizard Quest
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Put on your geek beanie and solve riddles to free the wizards and get the gift shop discount.
Fred Smith's Concrete Park
Phillips, Wisconsin
Folk art army sculpted from discarded beer bottles and concrete.
Funeral Home with Perky Animal Dioramas
Madison, Wisconsin
Sam Sanfillippo's cute dead animal scenes -- where albino squirrels go after they die.
Dr. Evermor and the Forevertron
Baraboo - North Freedom, Wisconsin
Tom Every, aka "Dr. Evermor," constructed a science fiction landscape from old carburetors and discarded power house machines.
House on the Rock
Spring Green, Wisconsin
This amazing place has little to do with a house or a rock, but a lot to do with music machines, a giant cannon, a sea monster, and excess amounts of everything.
Top Secret Inc
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
An upside-down White House is only the start of the mysterious conspiracy.
Museum of Historic Torture Devices
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Now are you ready to discuss the political and ethical morass of state-sponsored torture? How about after we tighten your skull crusher?
When Halfway is Far Enough
Wisconsin
When Halfway is Far Enough: Adventures along the 45th Parallel reach an exquisite intensity for map geeks in Wisconsin.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Baraboo: Circus World Museum
- Baraboo: The Forevertron
- Beloit: Angel Museum
- Birnamwood: World's Largest Badger
- Black River Falls: Moose [tips]
- Butte Des Morts: Schettl's Freight Sales
- Cataract: Wegner Grotto
- Cochrane: Prairie Moon Folk Art
- DeForest: Sissy the Cow
- Delavan: Romeo, Killer Elephant
- Dickeyville: Holy Ghost Grotto
- Eau Claire: Paul Bunyan and Babe statues [Catalog of Bunyans]
- Eau Claire: Ship Shaped Car Wash [tips]
- Elmwood: UFO Capital of Wisconsin [tips]
- Ft. Atkinson: National Dairy Shrine
- Fountain City: Rock in the House
- Hayward: Moccasin Bar
- Hayward: World's Largest Fiberglass Fish
- Hollandale: Nick Engelbert's Grandview Folk Art [tips]
- Green Bay: Green Bay Packer Receiver
- Green Bay: WTC Memorial
- Green Bay - Poland: UFO Landing Port
- Janesville: Bessie the Big Cow
- Kewaunee: World's Tallest Grandfather Clock [tips]
- La Crosse: Paul Hefti's yard art [tips]
- La Crosse: World's Largest Six-pack [news]
- Lake Geneva: Andy Gump statue [tips]
- Lake Nebagamon: JFK's Twine Ball
- Madison: Funeral home with Perky Animal Dioramas
- Madison: Pink elephant [tips]
- Manitowoc: Sputnik Crashed Here
- Marshfield: Jurustic Park [tips]
- Mercer: World's Third Largest Loon
- Middleton: Mustard Museum [tips]
- Necedah: Virgin Mary Appeared Here
- Neillsville: World's Largest Talking Cow, Chatty Belle [tips]
- Peshtigo: Cow statue
- Phillips: Fred Smith's Concrete Park
- Plainfield: Cannibal Ed Gein's Grave [tips]
- Plainfield: Site of Ed Gein's Cannibal House [tips]
- Prairie du Chien: Transparent Twins, Fort Crawford Medical Museum
- Rhinelander: Home of the Hodag
- Seymour: Home of the Hamburger
- Sheboygan: Wreck of the Lottie Cooper [tips]
- Shell Lake: Museum of Woodcarving
- Sparta: Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bike Museum
- Sparta: F.A.S.T. Fiberglass Statue Factory
- Sparta: World's Largest Bicyclist
- Spring Green: House on the Rock
- Steven's Point: Boy and the Boot
- Two Rivers: Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sundae
- Wabeno: Paul Bunyan statue [Catalog of Bunyans]
- Wausau: Boy and the Boot
- Wisconsin Dells: Mecca Report
- Wisconsin Dells: Ghost Outpost
- Wisconsin Dells: Museum of Historic Torture Devices
- Wisconsin Dells: Storybook Gardens [tips]
- Wisconsin Dells: Top Secret Inc
- Wisconsin Dells: Wizard Quest
- Woodruff: World's Largest Penny
