Wisconsin is located in the Midwest area of the US. The state is bordered by the Montreal River, Lake Superior and Michigan to the north, by Lake Michigan to the east, by Illinois to the south, and by Iowa and Minnesota to the west. Part of the state's boundaries includes the Mississippi River and St. Croix River in the west, and the Menominee River and Montreal River in the northeast. Madison is the capital city.
REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS
NORTH REGION Marion Amazement Park is a permanent 30,000 square foot series of walkways, towers and platforms that twist through the maze. There are only 5 others like it in US.
North Lakeland Discovery Center explores the region's natural, cultural and historical resources through recreation, field experience, study, discussion and display.
St. Croix Festival Theatre offers a variety of plays throughout the year.
American Folklore Theatre's mission is to develop and present professional dramatic productions of a cultural and/or educational nature which will further the knowledge and appreciation of the heritage of the United States through creation, development, publication, and presentation in live or recorded form, of dramatic and musical works of art.
Birch Creek Music Performance Center is the summer home to outstanding young musicians and some of the country's top performers and music educators, who teach by day and perform by night in the rural campus' 500-seat concert hall.
Rhinelander Logging Museum Complex is a replica of a lumber camp of the 1870's, consisting of a bunkhouse, a cook shanty, and a blacksmith shop.
Forts Folle Avoine Historic Park brings to life the rich heritage of the fur trade area in the Folle Avoine region of northwestern Wisconsin.
Peck's Wildwood Wildlife Park is home to over 500 animals and birds including; wolf, black bear, elk, bobcat, buffalo, deer, mountain lion, wallaby, coatimundi, emu, ring-tailed lemur, African spurred tortoise, eagle and birds of the world.
Big Top Chautauqua is a non-profit performing arts organization and presents a seventy-plus night summer season of concerts, plays, lectures, and original, illuminated historical musicals.
Waswagoning is a 20-acre outdoor recreated Indian village on the Lac du Flambeau OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Northwoods Wildlife Center
Carl's Wood Art Museum
The Fairfield Art Museum
National Fresh Water Fishing Hall Of Fame
Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay
Lumberjack Special Steam Train & Camp Five Museum
White Pines Family Fun Center
Northwoods Children's Museum
Cana Island Lighthouse
International Snowmobile Hall of Fame
Door County Maritime Museum at Gills Rock
Lumberjack Village
SOUTH REGION
Discovery World Museum has over 150 custom-designed, fully interactive exhibits located on two floors.
East Troy Electric Railroad Museum runs from Mukwonago to East Troy in southeast Wisconsin.
H.H. Bennett Studio & History Center has interactive exhibits that trace the evolution of Wisconsin Dells through the lens of landscape photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett.
Pendarvis Historic Site traces its beginnings to Wisconsin's territorial lead-mining heyday during the 1830s and '40s, when many immigrant Cornish miners settled in Mineral Point to work the mines.
Old World Wisconsin is an open-air museum that includes a 1870s crossroads village and an assortment of ethnic farmsteads.
Kettle Moraine Steam Train offers an eight-mile nostalgic ride on a turn of the century steam train.
Kalahari Waterpark Resort features an African theme and has 11 slides, three jacuzzis, Torrent River, wave pool, kid's play area, fitness center, salon, gift shop, 72 luxurious suites and lots more.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater brings 15 productions of the best in contemporary drama, classics, comedies and cabaret to three unique stages each season.
International Clown Hall of Fame is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of clown art.
William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design explores advertising, design and our culture.
Visit American UFO & Sci-Fi Museum for breathtaking tributes to your favorite science fiction films and exciting exhibits.
Kenosha Military Museum features military artifacts from WWI.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee Zoo
Overture Center for the Arts
Circus World Museum
House on the Rock
Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Mitchell Park Conservatory (Domes)
Hoard Historical Museum
Henry Vilas Zoo
Villa Louis Historic Site
Watson's Wild West Museum
West Bend Art Museum
Riverview Park & Waterworld
Milwaukee Public Museum
Milton House Museum
Mid-Continent Railway Museum
Madison Children's Museum
Logan Museum of Anthropology
Urban Ecology Center
Treasure Island Waterpark Resort
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
Janesville's Rotary Gardens
Riveredge Nature Center
Racine Zoological Gardens
Norskedalen Nature & Heritage Center
Museum of Norman Rockwell Art
CENTRAL REGION
Weidner Center for Performing Arts has outstanding acoustics; physical beauty and state-of-the-art accommodations combine to make it one of the finest performing halls in the United States.
Ellwood H. May Environmental Park has 120 acres of forests, wetlands and prairie with ponds, river and an abundance of wildlife.
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is Wisconsin's premier art museum
Above & Beyond Children's Museum offers hands-on fun for kids like a treehouse, skycrawl, computer lab, pin screen and more.
Historic Point Basse preserves the 1850s site that was an important stopping place for lumber rafts as they headed down river.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center is devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary American art.
Houdini Historical Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to gathering, interpretation, and dissemination of information and artifacts related to the life and career of Harry Houdini.
Crystal Cave has hundreds of stalactites and stalagmites, and labyrinth passageways.
Wisconsin Maritime Museum is a fascinating, entertaining, educational adventure into everything maritime.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame
Oshkosh Public Museum
Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology
Woodland Dunes Nature Center
Cranberry Expo Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bike Museum
Rainbow Falls Family Fun Park
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
Grand Opera House
Paul Bunyan Logging Camp
Neville Public Museum
Children's Museum of La Crosse
National Railroad Museum
Lake Michigan Carferry Service
New Richmond Heritage Center
Barlow Planetarium
Chippewa Valley Museum
Thrasher's Opera House
EAA AirVenture Museum
Capitol Civic Centre
Mabel Tainter Memorial Theatre
NATIONAL PARKS
Apostle Island National Lakeshore includes 21 islands and 12 miles of mainland Lake Superior shoreline, featuring pristine stretches of sand beach, spectacular sea caves, remnant old-growth forests, resident bald eagles and black bears, and the largest collection of lighthouses anywhere in the National Park System.
Ice Age National Scenic Trail travels through the edges of the glacier that passed into Wisconsin.
Saint Croix National Scenic River consists of the Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers providing 252 miles of recreational opportunities.
THINGS TO DO
Old World Wisconsin This is America's largest outdoor museum of rural life. An open-air museum, this Old World museum includes a 1870s village and an assortment of ethnic farmsteads.
Above & Beyond Children's Museum offers hands-on fun for kids.
REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS
NORTH REGION Marion Amazement Park is a permanent 30,000 square foot series of walkways, towers and platforms that twist through the maze. There are only 5 others like it in US.
North Lakeland Discovery Center explores the region's natural, cultural and historical resources through recreation, field experience, study, discussion and display.
St. Croix Festival Theatre offers a variety of plays throughout the year.
American Folklore Theatre's mission is to develop and present professional dramatic productions of a cultural and/or educational nature which will further the knowledge and appreciation of the heritage of the United States through creation, development, publication, and presentation in live or recorded form, of dramatic and musical works of art.
Birch Creek Music Performance Center is the summer home to outstanding young musicians and some of the country's top performers and music educators, who teach by day and perform by night in the rural campus' 500-seat concert hall.
Rhinelander Logging Museum Complex is a replica of a lumber camp of the 1870's, consisting of a bunkhouse, a cook shanty, and a blacksmith shop.
Forts Folle Avoine Historic Park brings to life the rich heritage of the fur trade area in the Folle Avoine region of northwestern Wisconsin.
Peck's Wildwood Wildlife Park is home to over 500 animals and birds including; wolf, black bear, elk, bobcat, buffalo, deer, mountain lion, wallaby, coatimundi, emu, ring-tailed lemur, African spurred tortoise, eagle and birds of the world.
Big Top Chautauqua is a non-profit performing arts organization and presents a seventy-plus night summer season of concerts, plays, lectures, and original, illuminated historical musicals.
Waswagoning is a 20-acre outdoor recreated Indian village on the Lac du Flambeau OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Northwoods Wildlife Center
Carl's Wood Art Museum
The Fairfield Art Museum
National Fresh Water Fishing Hall Of Fame
Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay
Lumberjack Special Steam Train & Camp Five Museum
White Pines Family Fun Center
Northwoods Children's Museum
Cana Island Lighthouse
International Snowmobile Hall of Fame
Door County Maritime Museum at Gills Rock
Lumberjack Village
SOUTH REGION
Discovery World Museum has over 150 custom-designed, fully interactive exhibits located on two floors.
East Troy Electric Railroad Museum runs from Mukwonago to East Troy in southeast Wisconsin.
H.H. Bennett Studio & History Center has interactive exhibits that trace the evolution of Wisconsin Dells through the lens of landscape photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett.
Pendarvis Historic Site traces its beginnings to Wisconsin's territorial lead-mining heyday during the 1830s and '40s, when many immigrant Cornish miners settled in Mineral Point to work the mines.
Old World Wisconsin is an open-air museum that includes a 1870s crossroads village and an assortment of ethnic farmsteads.
Kettle Moraine Steam Train offers an eight-mile nostalgic ride on a turn of the century steam train.
Kalahari Waterpark Resort features an African theme and has 11 slides, three jacuzzis, Torrent River, wave pool, kid's play area, fitness center, salon, gift shop, 72 luxurious suites and lots more.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater brings 15 productions of the best in contemporary drama, classics, comedies and cabaret to three unique stages each season.
International Clown Hall of Fame is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of clown art.
William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design explores advertising, design and our culture.
Visit American UFO & Sci-Fi Museum for breathtaking tributes to your favorite science fiction films and exciting exhibits.
Kenosha Military Museum features military artifacts from WWI.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee Zoo
Overture Center for the Arts
Circus World Museum
House on the Rock
Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Mitchell Park Conservatory (Domes)
Hoard Historical Museum
Henry Vilas Zoo
Villa Louis Historic Site
Watson's Wild West Museum
West Bend Art Museum
Riverview Park & Waterworld
Milwaukee Public Museum
Milton House Museum
Mid-Continent Railway Museum
Madison Children's Museum
Logan Museum of Anthropology
Urban Ecology Center
Treasure Island Waterpark Resort
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
Janesville's Rotary Gardens
Riveredge Nature Center
Racine Zoological Gardens
Norskedalen Nature & Heritage Center
Museum of Norman Rockwell Art
CENTRAL REGION
Weidner Center for Performing Arts has outstanding acoustics; physical beauty and state-of-the-art accommodations combine to make it one of the finest performing halls in the United States.
Ellwood H. May Environmental Park has 120 acres of forests, wetlands and prairie with ponds, river and an abundance of wildlife.
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is Wisconsin's premier art museum
Above & Beyond Children's Museum offers hands-on fun for kids like a treehouse, skycrawl, computer lab, pin screen and more.
Historic Point Basse preserves the 1850s site that was an important stopping place for lumber rafts as they headed down river.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center is devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary American art.
Houdini Historical Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to gathering, interpretation, and dissemination of information and artifacts related to the life and career of Harry Houdini.
Crystal Cave has hundreds of stalactites and stalagmites, and labyrinth passageways.
Wisconsin Maritime Museum is a fascinating, entertaining, educational adventure into everything maritime.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame
Oshkosh Public Museum
Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology
Woodland Dunes Nature Center
Cranberry Expo Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bike Museum
Rainbow Falls Family Fun Park
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
Grand Opera House
Paul Bunyan Logging Camp
Neville Public Museum
Children's Museum of La Crosse
National Railroad Museum
Lake Michigan Carferry Service
New Richmond Heritage Center
Barlow Planetarium
Chippewa Valley Museum
Thrasher's Opera House
EAA AirVenture Museum
Capitol Civic Centre
Mabel Tainter Memorial Theatre
NATIONAL PARKS
Apostle Island National Lakeshore includes 21 islands and 12 miles of mainland Lake Superior shoreline, featuring pristine stretches of sand beach, spectacular sea caves, remnant old-growth forests, resident bald eagles and black bears, and the largest collection of lighthouses anywhere in the National Park System.
Ice Age National Scenic Trail travels through the edges of the glacier that passed into Wisconsin.
Saint Croix National Scenic River consists of the Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers providing 252 miles of recreational opportunities.
THINGS TO DO
Old World Wisconsin This is America's largest outdoor museum of rural life. An open-air museum, this Old World museum includes a 1870s village and an assortment of ethnic farmsteads.
Above & Beyond Children's Museum offers hands-on fun for kids.
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