Wisconsin Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball Wisconsin places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Appleton: Harry Houdini Historical Center
Appleton: Strange Horse Statue
Ashippun: Honey of A Museum
Aurora Center - Omro: Split Personality House
Baileys Harbor: Freddy the Polka King
Baraboo - Wisconsin Dells: Wisconsin Dells Cowboy Muffler Man
Baraboo: Circus World Museum
Beaver: Half Way North - 45th Parallel Marker
Bellevue: Soldier with Truck and Cannon
Beloit - Janesville: Pickup Truck in Tree
Beloit: Angel Museum
Beloit: Apple Water Tower
Beloit: Hormel Chili Can
Beloit: World's Largest Replica Train Engine
Birnamwood: World's Largest Badger
Black River - Sheboygan: James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden
Black River Falls: Giant Mouse
Black River Falls: Leaping Deer
Black River Falls: Orange Moose
Boulder Junction: Shrimp's Museum - Vague Recollections
Buffalo City: Viking Statue
Burlington - Kansasville: Bong Recreational Area - Flying High
Burlington: Sci-Fi Cafe and Museum
Burlington: Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum, the "Top Lady"
Butte Des Morts - Oshkosh: Weird Statues and Oddball Art Junk
Cadott: Halfway Between Equator and North Pole
Camp Douglas: Sea Shell City - Vague Recollections
Campbellsport - Dundee: UFO Capital of the World
Cataract: Paul and Matilda Wegner Grotto
Cecil: Voeck's Famous Chicken - Vague Recollections
Chippewa Falls: Leinenkugel Brewery Tour and Free Beer
Clintonville: Portion of the Great Wall of China
Clinton: Muffler Man - Bunyan
Cochrane: Prairie Moon
Coleman: Big Cow
Cornell: World's Only Pulpwood Stacker
Darlington: Giant Cardinal
DeForest: Pink Elephant
DeForest: Sissie the Cow
Delavan: Circus Dead Buried Here
Delavan: Statue of Romeo, The Killer Elephant
Dickeyville: Dickeyville Grotto
Dodgeville: Don Q Inn
Eagle River: Albino Deer
Eagle: Smiley Face Water Tower
Eau Claire: Car on Stilts, other Eau Claire sights
Eau Claire: Paul Bunyan and Babe Statues
Eau Claire: Ship Shaped Car Wash
Edgerton - Newville: Apple Water Tower
Elkhorn: Watson's Wild West Museum - 2,000 Branding Irons
Elmwood: UFO Capital of Wisconsin
Fennimore: "Dinky" the Train
Fennimore: Igor, Cheese Loving Rat
Fifield: Deer Statue
Fond du Lac: Carry Nation Smashed Here
Fort Atkinson: National Dairy Shrine Visitor's Center
Fountain City: Rock in the House
Fox Point: The Witch's House
Glidden: 665-lb World Record Stuffed Bear
Glidden: Robot Holding a Pipe
Green Bay - Poland: U.F.O. Landing Port
Green Bay: 911 World Trade Center Memorial
Green Bay: Don Debaker's Dinosaurs
Green Bay: Green Bay Packer Receiver
Green Bay: Shoe Tree
Greenfield: Organ Piper Pizza
Hartford: Wisconsin Automotive Museum
Hayward: Controversial World's Largest Real Muskie
Hayward: Lumberjack World Championships
Hayward: Moccasin Bar
Hayward: National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame
Hayward: Windmill Shaped Building
Hollandale: Nick Engelbert's Grandview Folk Art Environment
Hudson: Wisconsin's Finest Taxidermy and Cheese Shop
Hurley: World's Largest Corkscrew
Janesville: Duck Head Fountain
Janesville: Bessie the Cow
Janesville: Two-story Outhouse
Kenosha: Mars Cheese Castle
Kewaunee: "Dungeon" and Only Known Wood Carving of Custer's Last Stand
Kewaunee: World's Tallest Grandfather Clock
La Crosse: Big Statue of Hiawatha
La Crosse: La Crosse Players statue
La Crosse: Pop Bottle House
La Crosse: World's Largest Six-Pack And King Gambrinus Statue
Lac du Flambeau: World's Largest Speared Sturgeon
Lake Delton - Wisconsin Dells: MIR Space Station
Lake Geneva: Andy Gump Statue
Lake Mills: Princess Burial Mound
Lake Nebagamon: JFK's Twine Ball: World's Largest?
Laona: World's Largest Soup Kettle
Madison: Dead Pals of Sam Sanfillippo
Madison: Dreamkeepers Junk Sculpture
Madison: Ella's Animatronic Deli
Madison: Giant Metal Birds - Dreamkeepers
Madison: Green Bay Packer House
Madison: Mural Mixing Religion and Household Appliances
Madison: Odd Wisconsin - Display Of Treasures
Madison: Paul Bunyan Murals
Madison: Winkie the Elephant - Moving on....
Maiden Rock: Town Named After Indian Teen Suicide
Manitowac: Chief Wawatam Engine and Submarine
Manitowish Waters: Little Bohemia Lodge - Dillinger Shootout
Manitowoc: Big Bud Six Pack
Manitowoc: Cedar Crest Cow
Manitowoc: Sputnik Crashed Here
Marshal: Crazy Barn Mural
Marshfield: Jurustic Park
Marshfield: World's Largest Round Barn
Mercer: World's Third Largest Loon
Merrill: Eddie The Chicken
Millard: Hitler Museum (Never Opened)
Milton: Giant Pumpkin Silo
Milwaukee: Exhibit: Fiji Mermaid and other objects of deception
Milwaukee: Gertie the Duck, Symbol of Hope
Milwaukee: Harley-Davidson Museum
Milwaukee: Inventor of the Typewriter Grave
Milwaukee: James Bond 007's The Safehouse
Milwaukee: Jesus on a Tree

Milwaukee: Miller Brewery Tour - Beer Caves
Milwaukee: Mitchell Gallery of Flight, Zeppelin exhibit
Milwaukee: Statue of The Fonz
Milwaukee: Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame (Never Built)
Milwaukee: World's Largest Four-Faced Clock
Minocqua: Paul Bunyan and Babe
Monico: Rhinelapus: Tree Root Monster Rival to The Hodag
Mosinee: Big Chicken
Mosinee: Tin Man Mailbox
Mt. Horeb: Mustard Museum
Mt. Horeb: Scrap Iron Menagerie
Mt. Horeb: Troll Infested Town
Necedah: Virgin Mary Appeared Here
Neenah: Bergstrom-Mahler Paperweight Museum
Neillsville: Chatty Belle, Talking Cow
Neptune: Elephant Trunk Rock
New Berlin: Easter Island Head
North Freedom - Baraboo: Forevertron
Norwalk: Black Squirrel Capital & Festival
Oak Creek: Big Steer
Oakdale: Another Giant Mouse with Cheese
Oconto Falls: Smiley Face Water Tower
Onalaska: Sunfish Capital of the World - Sunny the Sunfish
Oshkosh: Giant Flamingo
Oshkosh: Muffler Man
Park Falls: Corrugated Tube Man
Park Falls: Old Abe the Eagle
Park Falls: Wood Tick Hall Of Fame
Peshtigo: Great Peshtigo Fire Museum
Peshtigo: Theoretical Half Way Point Plaque
Phillips: Elvis Tavern and Heartbreak Hotel
Phillips: Fred Smith's Concrete Park
Phillips: Tin Man on Bicycle
Phillips: Wildlife Museum and Bar
Plainfield: Cannibal Ed Gein's Grave
Plainfield: Site of Ed Gein's Cannibal House
Plain: Mouse Holding Platter
Platteville: Big Letter "M"
Platteville: Mining Museum, Rollo Jamison Museum
Plymouth: Big Cow - Antoinette
Plymouth: Farm Crest Auto Sales Bull
Poniatowski - Rietbrock: Exact Center of the Northern Half of the Western Hemisphere
Portage: State Rights race horse grave
Portage: Strange Giant Farmer
Potosi: World's Largest Cone-Top Beer Can
Prairie du Chien: The Transparent Twins
Prairie du Sac: Bovine Bingo and Cow Chip Throw
Reedsburg: Black Squirrel Lounge
Rhinelander: Cowboy Hodag
Rhinelander: Home of the Hodag
Rhinelander: Trademarked Hodag Statue
Ripon: Birthplace of the Republican Party
River Falls: Edgar Wilson Nye Isn't Here
Saint Germain: Indian and Fish Statues
Salem: Wooden Hand Throwing Ball
Sayner: Birthplace of the Snowmobile
Seymour: Home of the Hamburger
Sheboygan: Artist-enhanced restrooms
Sheboygan: Largest American Flag
Sheboygan: Wreck of the Lottie Cooper
Shell Lake: Museum of Woodcarving
Shell Lake: Walk-Thru Bibles
Shell Lake: Walleye Statue with Two Tails
Shullsburg: Gravity Hill
Sister Bay: Goats on the Roof
Sparta: Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bicycle Museum
Sparta: Dinosaur Skeletons
Sparta: FAST: Fiberglass Statue Mold Yard
Sparta: Pheasant and Other Fiberglass
Sparta: World's Largest Bicyclist
Spooner: All aboard the Pizza Train
Spooner: Muffler Man
Spring Green: Giant Pumpkin - Jack-o-lantern
Spring Green: House On The Rock
St. Germain: Chief Big St. Germain
Stevens Point: Boy and the Boot statue
Stoughton: Birthplace of the Coffee Break
Sturtevant: University of Lawsonomy
Superior: Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center
Superior: World of Accordions Museum
Tilden: Half-Way Between Equator And North Pole Billboard
Tomahawk: Packers Car Parts Giant
Tomah: Where the I Divides
Two Rivers: Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sundae
Two Rivers: World's First Gas-Powered Residential Clothes Dryer
Wabeno: Paul Bunyan Muffler Man: "Larry the Logroller"
Warrens: Wisconsin Cranberry Discovery Center
Washington Island: Large Coffee Pot
Waterloo: Big Mouse at Jim's Cheese
Waukesha County: Giant Chicken
Waukesha: Gertrude Basse the Cow
Waukesha: Grumpy Old Men Movie Town
Waukesha: Nike Missile Base
Wausau: Boy and the Boot statue
West Allis and Milwaukee: Two Pagoda Gas Stations
West Bend: Muffler Man Head
West Bend: West Bend/Regal Ware Historic Museum
Wild Rose: Lickety Licious Fiberglass Cone
Windsor: Mouse House Cheesehaus
Wisconsin Dells and Lake Delton: Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin Dells: Barbra Streisand Rock
Wisconsin Dells: Dells Boat Tours
Wisconsin Dells: Fiberglass Graveyard Riding Stable
Wisconsin Dells: Ghost Outpost
Wisconsin Dells: H.H. Bennett Studio History Centre - Dells Origins... and a Troll
Wisconsin Dells: Motel Animals
Wisconsin Dells: Museum of Historic Torture Devices
Wisconsin Dells: Paul Bunyan's Restaurant
Wisconsin Dells: Russian MIR Space Station
Wisconsin Dells: Storybook Gardens
Wisconsin Dells: Tommy Bartlett's Thrill Show
Wisconsin Dells: Top Secret - Upside-Down White House
Wisconsin Dells: Wizard Quest
Wisconsin Dells: World's Largest Flamingo
Wisconsin Rapids: Painted Rock
Woodruff: Scheer's Lumberjack Demo Show
Woodruff: World's Largest Penny

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Aniwa: Wilbert Behn, Lion Tamer - Retired
Cornell: Mona Lisa Barn - Gone
Couderay: The Hideout: Al Capone's Northwoods Retreat - Closed
Eagle River: Carl's Wood Art Adventure - Closed
Eagle River: Pleasure Island - Gone
Green Bay: World's Largest Toilet Paper Roll - Gone
Hatfield: Thunderbird Museum (8-legged Pig) - Closed
Kimberly: Largest Display of Avon Products, in a Front Yard - Gone
La Crosse: Paul Hefti's Yard Art - Gone

Lake Delton: Wonder Spot - Closed
Lakewood: Muffler Man - Gone
Mequon: French-themed McDonald's - Non!
Milwaukee - West Allis: International Clown Hall of Fame - Closed
Neillsville: World's Largest Replica Cheese - Gone
Pardeeville: La Reau's World of Miniature - Closed
Wisconsin Dells: Mass Panic - Closed
Wisconsin Dells: Xanadu: Home of the Future - Closed

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