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Wisconsin Oddities

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Curious Landmarks

Wisconsin Concrete Park

Phillips, Wisconsin

A retired lumberjack covered a property with 237 concrete figures built from wire, broken glass, bottles, found objects, and an apparently unlimited supply of determination.

Strange Museums

National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Tens of thousands of nodding heads fill a Milwaukee museum devoted entirely to bobbleheads, from sports stars and celebrities to mascots and deeply obscure characters.

Roadside Attractions

Hodag Statue

Rhinelander, Wisconsin

A huge horned monster with tusks, claws, spikes, and red eyes guards Rhinelander, preserving a local creature that began as an elaborate nineteenth-century hoax.

Giant Objects

Giant Muskie

Hayward, Wisconsin

A four-and-a-half-story muskie contains a museum passage through its body and an observation deck inside its enormous open mouth.

Strange Museums

House on the Rock

Spring Green, Wisconsin

A strange house on a rock expanded into a sprawling maze containing automated orchestras, a 200-foot sea creature, an unsupported glass corridor, and a carousel packed…

Strange Museums

National Mustard Museum

Middleton, Wisconsin

More than 7,000 mustards from all 50 states and over 70 countries fill a museum born from one man's post-World-Series grocery-store crisis.

Curious Landmarks

Al Johnson’s Goats on the Roof

Sister Bay, Wisconsin

A Door County restaurant has a real grass roof, and during the warmer months real goats climb onto it to graze above customers eating below.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Six Pack

La Crosse, Wisconsin

Six 54-foot brewery tanks were painted like giant beer cans, creating a six-pack large enough to contain thousands of barrels.

Curious Landmarks

Dr. Evermor’s Forevertron

North Freedom, Wisconsin

A retired industrial wrecker transformed salvaged machinery into a 50-foot-tall fantasy machine supposedly built to launch its fictional inventor into space.

Giant Objects

Pinkie the Pink Elephant

DeForest, Wisconsin

A massive pink elephant wearing oversized black glasses has been staring across a Wisconsin interstate exit since the 1960s.

Historic Oddities

Sputnik IV Impact Site

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

A Soviet spacecraft missed its planned descent, broke apart over Earth, and dropped a hot chunk of metal into the middle of a Wisconsin street in…

Giant Objects

Chatty Belle

Neillsville, Wisconsin

A 16-foot-tall Holstein built for the 1964 New York World's Fair ended up in Wisconsin as a giant roadside cow once equipped to tell visitors her…