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Drive down a state highway, back road or side street in rural Wisconsin, and you just may find yourself staring down a 5...
05/31/2026

Drive down a state highway, back road or side street in rural Wisconsin, and you just may find yourself staring down a 50-foot-tall scrap metal spaceship or a sculpture park filled with hundreds of concrete figurines.

Read more: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/6-artist-built-environments-to-visit-in-wisconsin/

Story by: Lindsey Anderson Rios
Photo: Courtesy of Dickeyville Grotto

This story originally appeared in our May 2026 issue. Ensure every month’s issue is delivered right to your door for less than $20 a year. Subscribe now: https://tr.ee/MilMagSubscribe

The Wisconsin Dells region maintains a snapshot of a different era of the summer tourist. Surrounded by natural beauty, ...
05/30/2026

The Wisconsin Dells region maintains a snapshot of a different era of the summer tourist. Surrounded by natural beauty, the Dells once hooked visitors with midcentury-style motels, supper clubs, magic shows, souvenir shops, cheesy haunted houses and truly oddball attractions – all the ingredients of a charming tourist trap. While these kinds of spots have withered, the Dells still flourish.

Read more: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/3-oddball-attractions-to-see-at-the-wisconsin-dells/

Story by: Tea Krulos
Photo: Courtesy of Visitor & Convention Bureau

This story originally appeared in our May 2026 issue. Ensure every month’s issue is delivered right to your door for less than $20 a year. Subscribe now: https://tr.ee/MilMagSubscribe

Staying at a cabin at the edge of a placid lake or scenic bluff is not that difficult in the Dairy State. But what about...
05/29/2026

Staying at a cabin at the edge of a placid lake or scenic bluff is not that difficult in the Dairy State. But what about waking up in a hobbit-style hut or a decommissioned warbird? Inject some weirdness into your otherwise conventional travel by resting your head in one of these lodgings.

Read more: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/4-of-the-quirkiest-places-to-stay-in-wisconsin/

Story by: Kristine Hansen
Photo: Courtesy of Hobbit House

This story originally appeared in our May 2026 issue. Ensure every month’s issue is delivered right to your door for less than $20 a year. Subscribe now: https://tr.ee/MilMagSubscribe

The grandparent of weird entertainment is the circus. Its purveyors coveted “new and unusual” to keep fresh beyond the u...
05/29/2026

The grandparent of weird entertainment is the circus. Its purveyors coveted “new and unusual” to keep fresh beyond the usual acrobats and exotic animals, so the roster included human cannonballs, sword swallowers, pigs that could solve math problems – anything that would look good slapped on a banner.

The grandparent of weird entertainment is the circus. Its purveyors coveted “new and unusual” to keep fresh beyond the usual acrobats and exotic animals, so the roster included human cannonballs, sword swallowers, pigs that could solve math problems – anything that would look good slapped on a banner.

Read more: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/baraboos-circus-world-museum/

Story by: Tea Krulos
Photo: Courtesy of Wisconsin Historical Society

This story originally appeared in our May 2026 issue. Ensure every month’s issue is delivered right to your door for less than $20 a year. Subscribe now: https://tr.ee/MilMagSubscribe

To appreciate Wisconsin’s appreciation of the wonderfully weird, you need only to look at the alternative. In so many pl...
05/28/2026

To appreciate Wisconsin’s appreciation of the wonderfully weird, you need only to look at the alternative. In so many places, mile after mile of carbon-copy big-box stores and gas stations, turn lanes and McDonald’s billboards all blur together into a never-ending stretch of sameness.

Wisconsin has plenty of that, too, but we also have a statue of the Hodag, the monster mascot of Rhinelander, greeting visitors; a street fest celebrating the day a hunk of Sputnik IV crashed into the streets of Manitowoc; a town, Mount Horeb, leaning into branding with trolls because of its Norwegian heritage – and why not? It thrills me to see towns embrace and preserve their strange stories and places because they are what make us unique. The weird is a welcome reprieve from a creeping blandness consuming everything in its path.

Read more: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/wisconsin-is-a-little-weird-and-thats-good/

Story by: Tea Krulos
Illustration by: David Arnevik

This story originally appeared in our May 2026 issue. Ensure every month’s issue is delivered right to your door for less than $20 a year. Subscribe now: https://tr.ee/MilMagSubscribe

For over two decades, Dave Cook has been a trusted presence at Feldco Home Renewal. A staple in Feldco’s commercials, hi...
05/28/2026

For over two decades, Dave Cook has been a trusted presence at Feldco Home Renewal. A staple in Feldco’s commercials, his long-running onscreen presence has kept viewers singing along to the jingle that closes every spot.

But he’s more than a TV personality. As a licensed contractor, he is an integral part of Feldco’s continued growth. We asked him to share his expertise with homeowners.

Read more: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/meet-milwaukees-expert-of-the-month-dave-cook/

Northern Wisconsin is thick with “world’s largest” monuments, which makes sense as the region was home to legendary lumb...
05/28/2026

Northern Wisconsin is thick with “world’s largest” monuments, which makes sense as the region was home to legendary lumberjack giant Paul Bunyan. Many of them were born out of the car culture that rapidly developed after World War II as businesses or local visitor bureaus tried to grab road trippers and summer tourist attention by one-upping flashing neon and massive signs. Many of these American giants have gone the way of the dinosaurs before them.

Others remain, and some have gotten a second wind from travelers snapping photos to make their social media more interesting.

Read more: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/weird-wisconsin-16-foot-tall-talking-holstein/

Story by: Tea Krulos
Photo: Courtesy of Central Wisconsin Broadcasting

This story originally appeared in our May 2026 issue. Ensure every month’s issue is delivered right to your door for less than $20 a year. Subscribe now: https://tr.ee/MilMagSubscribe

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