Wisconsin
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National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame
Hayward, Wisconsin
There is much to see here, but what you'll remember most vividly is the world's largest fish, a 45-foot tall fiberglass muskie with an observation deck in its toothy maw.
Forevertron
North Freedom, Wisconsin
Tom Every, aka "Dr. Evermor," constructed a science fiction landscape from old carburetors and discarded power house machines.
Fred Smith's Concrete Park
Phillips, Wisconsin
Folk art army sculpted from discarded beer bottles and concrete.
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 excesses of everything.
Moccasin Bar
Hayward, Wisconsin
Where everybody knows your name -- especially if you caught and stuffed the world record fish hanging on the wall. Goofy stuffed woodland creature dioramas as well.
Nick Engelbert's Grandview
Hollandale, Wisconsin
Dairy farmer Nick Engelbert filled his front yard with home-built statues, including a Viking in a Longboat and Snow White wearing a scallop shell bra.
Jurustic Park
Marshfield, Wisconsin
Amateur paleontologist and artist Clyde Wynia filled his property with extinct metal creatures from Marshfield's Iron Age.
Bronze Fonz
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1970s TV icon "The Fonz" and his fictional connection to Milwaukee are celebrated with Milwaukee's most popular statue. Restored to full bronze-ness in March 2022.
National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Phil Sklar and Brad Novak's army of 10,000+ wobblers is the largest in the world.
Virgin Mary Appeared Here
Necedah, Wisconsin
Statues of Lincoln, Washington, and Jesus stand together at the Mediatrix of Peace Shrine. Mary, Mother of God, visited in 1950..
Rudolph Grotto and Wonder Cave
Rudolph, Wisconsin
Father Philip Wagner and his helper Edmund Rybicki spent 20 years building a cave filled with Catholic religious shrines.
F.A.S.T.: Fiberglass Statue Mold Yard
Sparta, Wisconsin
Where big fiberglass statues come from, and where you can always wander the Mold Field and see the latest creations.
Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
The Dells are a wonder of nature -- but most folks come here for the over-the-top attractions.
Prairie Moon
Cochrane, Wisconsin
For 25 years retired farmer Herman Rusch built odd sculptures around his similarly odd museum in an old dance pavilion. It's folk art -- and it's been preserved.
Statue of Romeo, The Killer Elephant
Delavan, Wisconsin
A pugnacious pachyderm with five human kills to his credit, but the town still loves him.
Dickeyville Grotto
Dickeyville, Wisconsin
Rocks and found junk were fashioned into an elaborate religious grotto by a priest on a Mission from God. Washington, Lincoln, and Christopher Columbus make cameo appearances.
Don Q Inn
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Crazier-than-most fantasy room motel. Bathe in a cheese vat or soak in a hot tub on the moon. Underground tunnel leads to restaurant. Giant airplane on the lawn.
National Dairy Shrine Visitor's Center
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
The history of dairy farming revealed, including a display about vital parachute drops of bull semen.
World's Largest Six Pack, and the King of Beer
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Brewery with a monstrous sixer and a statue of the King of Beer.
Sputnik Crashed Here
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Sidewalk plaque and a circle in the street mark where a Soviet satellite smacked down. Replica of the space junk is displayed a few steps away.
World's Largest Talking Loon
Mercer, Wisconsin
Known as "Claire d'Loon," the World's Largest Talking Loon talks at the push of a button, but only in loon sounds.
Easter Island Head
New Berlin, Wisconsin
14-foot-tall cement plaster tiki head made to look like stone, and tough enough to survive Wisconsin winters.
Great Peshtigo Fire Museum and Mass Grave
Peshtigo, Wisconsin
America's most deadly forest fire was bad enough, but it happened on the same night as another fire that grabbed all the headlines.
Fred Smith's Lincoln-Todd Monument
Phillips, Wisconsin
Folk artist Fred Smith's bizarre interpretation of an Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln sculpture in Racine, Wisconsin. Fred probably saw it on a post card.
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- Alma: Castlerock Arms and Armor Museum
- Aniwa: Lincoln Legs [tips]
- Baraboo: Circus World Museum
- Beloit: Cow, Mouse With Cheese And Sausage [tips]
- Birnamwood: World's Largest Badger
- Bonduel: Doc's Harley-Davidson - Museum, Alligators, and a Pirate Ship [tips]
- Boulder Junction: Marty the Musky [tips]
- Buffalo City: Viking Statue with No Feet [tips]
- Cable: Giant Bigfoot [tips]
- Cashton: Rotary Milking Parlor [tips]
- Cochrane: Prairie Moon
- Colgate: Spectacular Sculptures of Bobrowitz [tips]
- Cornell: World's Only Pulpwood Stacker [tips]
- Cudahy: Crazy Yard, Sinking Cadillac [tips]
- DeForest: Pinkie the Pink Elephant [tips]
- Delavan: Statue of Romeo, The Killer Elephant
- Dickeyville: Dickeyville Grotto
- Dodgeville: Don Q Inn
- East Troy: Muffler Man: Beverage and Wiener [tips]
- Elk Creek: Roasted Chicken on Plate [tips]
- Elkhorn: Beast of Bray Road [tips]
- Fontana-on-Geneva Lake: Frog of Fontana [tips]
- Fort Atkinson: National Dairy Shrine Visitor's Center
- Glidden: 665-lb World Record Stuffed Bear [tips]
- Green Bay: 50-Foot-Tall Super Bowl Trophy [tips]
- Greenfield: Organ Piper Pizza [tips]
- Hayward: National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame
- Hayward: Moccasin Bar
- Hayward: Controversial World's Largest Real Muskie
- Hollandale: Nick Engelbert's Grandview
- Janesville: Bessie the Cow [tips]
- Jim Falls: Old Abe the Eagle [tips]
- Kenosha: Butchering a Mammoth [tips]
- Kenosha: The Civil War Museum [tips]
- La Crosse: World's Largest Six Pack, and the King of Beer
- Lac du Flambeau: World's Largest Speared Sturgeon [tips]
- Lake Geneva: Andy Gump Statue
- Madison: Giant Metal Birds - Dreamkeepers [tips]
- Madison: Dapper Cadaver: Horror Props [tips]
- Manitowoc: Sputnik Crashed Here
- Manitowoc: Chief Wawatam Engine and Submarine [tips]
- Marshfield: Jurustic Park
- Marshfield: Dragon of Liberty [tips]
- Medford: Forest of Chainsaw Totem Poles [tips]
- Mercer: World's Largest Talking Loon
- Mercer: Head of First Smokey Bear Costume [tips]
- Milwaukee: Harley-Davidson Museum [tips]
- Milwaukee: Bronze Fonz
- Milwaukee: Three Stooges Fermenting Tanks [tips]
- Milwaukee: 22-Foot-Long Graf Zeppelin II [tips]
- Milwaukee: National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum
- Milwaukee: Cheesehead Factory Tour [tips]
- Minocqua: Min-Aqua Bats Water Ski Mural
- Monico: World's Largest Rolling Mechanical Planetarium [tips]
- Mount Pleasant: Big Red Wiener Dog
- Necedah: Virgin Mary Appeared Here
- Neillsville: Chatty Belle, Talking Cow
- Neptune: Elephant Trunk Rock [tips]
- New Berlin: Easter Island Head
- New Denmark: 12-Foot-Tall Iron Viking [tips]
- New Franken: Virgin Mary was Here, Confirmed by Bishop [tips]
- North Freedom: Forevertron
- Onalaska: Sunny the Giant Sunfish [tips]
- Oshkosh: Weird Statues and Oddball Art Junk
- Oshkosh: Muffler Man [tips]
- Oshkosh: Experimental Aviation Museum: Frank Borman Collection [tips]
- Park Falls: Corrugated Tube Man [tips]
- Peshtigo: Great Peshtigo Fire Museum and Mass Grave
- Phillips: Fred Smith's Concrete Park
- Phillips: Fred Smith's Lincoln-Todd Monument
- Plainfield: Murderous Ghoul Ed Gein's Grave [tips]
- Platteville: Lead Mine Tour, Rollo Jamison Museum [tips]
- Poland: UFO Landing Port
- Poniatowski: Exact Center of the Northern Half of the Western Hemisphere
- Portage: Giant Farmer Bob [tips]
- Potosi: World's Largest Cone-Top Beer Can [tips]
- Rhinelander: Home of the Hodag
- Rhinelander: Trademarked Hodag Statue
- Rudolph: Rudolph Grotto and Wonder Cave
- Seymour: Home of the Hamburger
- Sheboygan: Art Preserve: Museum of Visionaries
- Shell Lake: Walleye Statue with Two Tails [tips]
- Shullsburg: Gravity Hill [tips]
- Siren: Tornado Boat Wrapped Around Pole [tips]
- Sister Bay: Goats on the Roof [tips]
- South Milwaukee: Da Crusher [tips]
- Sparta: F.A.S.T.: Fiberglass Statue Mold Yard
- Sparta: The Wegner Grotto
- Sparta: Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bicycle Museum
- Sparta: Giant Spartan [tips]
- Spooner: Muffler Man Cowboy [tips]
- Spooner: Two-Headed Calf, JFK Urinal [tips]
- Spring Green: House on the Rock
- Spring Valley: Crystal Cave [tips]
- St. Germain: Wacky Northwoods Fisherman Giant [tips]
- Sturgeon Bay: Cookie the Cow [tips]
- Sturgeon Bay: Mr. Mulch, the Gnome Giant [tips]
- Superior: Tour a Great Lakes Freighter on Land [tips]
- Wabeno: Larry the Logroller [tips]
- Walworth: Big Mac Mighty Robot
- Westby: Giant Ear of Corn Made of Milk Jugs [tips]
- Wild Rose: 23-Foot-Tall Transformer Robot [tips]
- Wisconsin Dells: Wisconsin Dells
- Wisconsin Dells: MIR Space Station
- Wisconsin Dells: Big Cowboy [tips]
- Wisconsin Dells: Museum of Historic Torture Devices
- Wisconsin Dells: Top Secret - Upside-Down White House
- Wisconsin Dells: Wizard Quest
- Wisconsin Dells: Ghost Outpost
- Wisconsin Dells: Giant Sinclair Dinosaur [tips]
- Woodruff: World's Largest Penny