One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

Housed inside a former munitions plant that was once one of the largest in the country.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

This small archipelago in northern Lake Superior was formed by a massive meteorite impact 450 million years ago.

One of the few Cold War-era bases with many of its original structures still standing.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.