Started by Will Allen, a former basketball player and the son of a sharecropper, Growing Power is an internationally recognized urban farm that will astonish anyone, even if you’ve never heard of... »

Horticultural Marvels | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others

Like the Guggenheim in New York and the Oakland Museum in California, the building of the Milwaukee Art Museum is a piece of art in itself. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the... »

Museums and Collections, Outsider Art, Unique Collections, Architectural Oddities | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Nicholas Jackson and others

Tucked away in a lackluster Milwaukee alleyway you will find "International Exports Ltd." Enter through the nondescript door, only to find yourself at yet another door where (depending on what day... »

Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by A Facebook user and Dylan

For many years the highlight of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin was the famous Mustard Museum, run by a local celebrity (Barry Levenson, famous for the mustard museum, naturally) and home to a huge... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by michelle and Dylan

Loy Allen Bowlin was known for his shuffle-step dancing, jokes and off-key singing. He was, of course, most well known as the "Rhinestone Cowboy" for his artistic rhinestone creations,... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and Henry

This natural wonder is one of the many odd rock formations and rocky crags along the Dalles of the St. Croix River. At the end of the last ice age, the frigid waters of Lake Superior drained... »

Geological Oddities | Edited by MattB and Dylan

One of a series of geographical markers set up by local newspaper editor Frank Noyes in the 1930s, some of the markers commemorate the exact half-way point between the North Pole and Equator,... »

Marvelous Maps and Measures | Edited by MattB and Dylan

At the end of the 1800s, the University of Southern California sought to build the world's largest telescope. In preparation, two 42-inch "blank" disks were cast by the Parisian glassmaking... »

Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by Trevor

John Krubsack was a self-starter. A banker from Embarrass, Wisconsin, he was the first in the area to boast running water, he landscaped his property before it was the fashion, he farmed and made... »

Extraordinary Flora, Horticultural Marvels, Outsider Architecture | Edited by michelle

The untrained eye married to the compulsion to create can produce the most strangely moving art. The Wisconsin Concrete Park is one such outdoor museum housing 237 concrete sculptures built by the... »

Outsider Art, Strange Statues, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, enealio and 2 others