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

Wisconsin State Page | Wisconsin Map

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: 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 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"
Cadott: Halfway Between Equator and North Pole
Camp Douglas: Sea Shell City - Vague Recollections
Campbellsport: 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: 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 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: 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
Oshkosh: Weird Statues and Oddball Art Junk
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
Poland: U.F.O. Landing Port
Poniatowski: 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: Carved Sturgeon Photo Opportunity
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: James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden
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
Tigerton: Rocks For Fun Cafe-Pasty Shop
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: Pagoda Gas Station
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: MIR Space Station
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: Wisconsin Dells Cowboy Muffler Man
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

Wisconsin State Page | Wisconsin Map

November 25, 2009

My Sights

Save Cool Vacation Destinations!

Try My Sights

Wisconsin Latest Tips and Stories

Goats on Roof, Sister Bay
Pagoda Gas Station, West Allis
Carved Sturgeon Photo Opportunity, Prairie du Chien
Rocks For Fun Cafe-Pasty Shop, Tigerton
Crazy Barn Mural, Marshal

Latest Visitor Tips

Sight of the Week

Wild Bill's Nostalgia Center, Middletown, Connecticut [Nov 23-29, 2009]

SotW Archive

USA and Canada Tips and Stories

UCM Museum - Mystery House, Labita Springs, Louisiana
Kellogg Discovery Center, Battle Creek, Michigan
Voyageur Statue - Carved, Two Harbors, Minnesota
Grave of the Toll Road Dog, Broomfield, Colorado
Penny Bar, McKittrick, California

Latest Visitor Tips

RoadsideAmerica.com Hotel & Motel Finder

Special online rates for hotels & motels.

Hotel Deals

Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Wisconsin Dells, Appleton, La Crosse, Eau Claire, Brookfield, Oshkosh, Sheboygan, Kenosha, Onalaska

Book Online Now


City
Check In
Check Out
Adults
Kids

Navigation