88 haunted destinations cataloged across Wisconsin, spanning 52 counties. The collection features other dark tourism site, haunted dining, and haunted hotel — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Madison, WI
American Ghost Walks is a multi-city tour operator founded around 2010, running guided storytelling walks across more than two dozen U.S. cities and territories, including five Wisconsin markets — Madison, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Lake Geneva, and Bayfield — plus stops in Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Louisiana, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.
Brookfield, WI
The Dousman Stagecoach Inn was built in 1843 by Talbot Dousman at the corner of Bluemound Road and Watertown Plank Road in what is now Brookfield, Wisconsin. It served as a stagecoach inn from the 1840s until 1872, then as a private home. In 1981 the Elmbrook Historical Society moved the building to a 20-acre park at 1075 Pilgrim Parkway, where it operates today as a museum. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Milwaukee, WI
Shaker's Cigar Bar occupies an 1894 building in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, built as a cooperage for the Schlitz Brewing Company. During Prohibition the building reportedly operated as a speakeasy associated with Frank and Al Capone, with rumored brothel use on its upper floors.
Milwaukee, WI
The building at 3129 N. Bremen Street is a turn-of-the-century triangular brick storefront sited where Bremen and another street meet at an angle in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood. It has variously served as a general store, a 1930s tavern called Ye Ol' Triangle Tap, and later Auggie's Triangle Tap — an Outlaws motorcycle-club hangout owned by August 'Auggie' Notbohm. Cafe Corazon, a Mexican restaurant founded by chef Dana Eckmann, took over the space in 2009.
Milwaukee, WI
The First Unitarian Church of Milwaukee is a Gothic Revival stone church built 1891-1892 at 1342 N. Astor Street for a Unitarian congregation founded in 1842. Designed by the Milwaukee architectural firm Ferry & Clas and dedicated on May 15, 1892, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Milwaukee, WI
The Loyalty Building was constructed in 1886 as the third headquarters of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company on the site of the 1883 Newhall House Hotel fire, which killed at least 71 people. Designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style by architect S.S. Beman, the building was acquired by Hilton in 2011 and converted to the 127-room Hilton Garden Inn Milwaukee Downtown by 2012. It is a contributor to the East Side Commercial Historic District.
Milwaukee, WI
The Brumder Mansion was built in 1910 by Milwaukee German-language publisher George Brumder for his eldest son. The English Arts and Crafts residence later operated as a Lutheran women's residence and, during Prohibition, as the cover for a basement speakeasy reportedly tied to local bootlegging networks. It has run as a bed and breakfast since the 1990s.
Milwaukee, WI
American Ghost Walks operates the Shadow of City Hall Ghost Walk on Saturdays at 7:30 PM, departing from the Pabst Theater on East Wells Street. The tour was developed by lifelong Milwaukeean and paranormal researcher Allison Jornlin, recipient of the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference's 2016 Researcher of the Year award, and has been the city's longest-running ghost tour since 2008.
Milwaukee, WI
The Milwaukee Third Ward Ghost Walk, run by American Ghost Walks, covers the city's Historic Third Ward — an arts and shopping district with a 19th-century history as the densely populated Irish immigrant neighborhood known as 'The Bloody Third.'
Milwaukee, WI
Shaker's Cigar Bar occupies an 1894 Walker's Point building originally constructed as a cooperage for the Schlitz Brewing Company. During Prohibition the structure operated as a speakeasy reportedly tied to the Capone family, with a brothel on the upper floors. Bob Weiss converted it to its current cigar-bar configuration in 1986.
Milwaukee, WI
The Pfister Hotel opened in 1893, built to fulfill the vision of Guido Pfister, a German immigrant leather manufacturer who died in 1889 before completion. His son Charles Pfister oversaw the project to completion, spending approximately $1 million. Known as the 'Grand Hotel of the West' at opening, the 307-room building features the largest collection of 19th-century Victorian art in any American hotel. Charles Pfister died in 1927.
Milwaukee, WI
The Eagles Club opened on September 13, 1927, as the Milwaukee headquarters of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Designed as a civic social club, the 180,000-square-foot, seven-level granite block structure originally contained a grand ballroom, barbershop, bowling alley, and swimming pool. Three days before opening, 15-year-old Francis Wren drowned in the basement pool — the event that anchors the building's paranormal reputation. In 1991, the building became The Rave, a concert venue.
Milwaukee, WI
Forest Home Cemetery was founded in 1850 as Milwaukee's first rural-garden cemetery, laid out by Wisconsin scientist Increase A. Lapham on the Mount Auburn model. Spanning roughly 200 acres on the city's south side, it became the burial place of the city's brewing and industrial dynasties including the Pabst, Schlitz, Best, Davidson, and Sholes families. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Milwaukee, WI
The Miller Caves are a 600-foot system of hand-dug lagering tunnels carved into a bluff above State Street in 1850 by the Best brothers, owners of the original Plank Road Brewery. Frederick Miller purchased the brewery and caves in 1855, and the caves served as the brewery's primary beer-aging storage until modern refrigeration replaced them in 1906.
Milwaukee, WI
The Milwaukee Public Museum traces its origins to the German-English Academy's collection acquired by the city in 1882. The current building at 800 West Wells Street was constructed 1960-1962 and opened in 1963, housing the famed Streets of Old Milwaukee diorama. Dr. Stephan F. de Borhegyi, a Hungarian-born archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica, directed the museum from 1959 until his death in a September 1969 automobile accident. A new building is under construction adjacent to the current site.
Milwaukee, WI
The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion was built between 1890 and 1892 for Pabst Brewing Company founder Frederick Pabst (1836-1904), designed by Milwaukee architects George Bowman Ferry and Alfred Charles Clas in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style. After Pabst family ownership ended in 1908, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee used the building as the archbishop's residence for nearly seventy years. In 1978 the nonprofit Wisconsin Heritages, Inc. purchased the property and opened it as a historic-house museum.
Milwaukee, WI
The Pabst Theater opened November 9, 1895, replacing the Stadt Theater destroyed by fire that same year. Captain Frederick Pabst commissioned architect Otto Strack to design the German Renaissance Revival opera house, which was completed in just six months. The Pabst is the fourth-oldest continuously operating theater in the United States and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991.
Milwaukee, WI
The Riverside Theater opened April 29, 1928, as a vaudeville and movie palace inside RKO Pictures' twelve-story Empire Building on West Wisconsin Avenue. Designed by Milwaukee architects Charles Kirchhoff and Thomas Rose in the French Baroque style, the theater hosted vaudeville, big-band, and film bookings until United Artists vacated in 1982. Joseph Zilber's Towne Realty funded a 1.5-million-dollar restoration, and the Riverside reopened as a live-performance venue on November 2, 1984.
Milwaukee, WI
Sabbatic occupies a two-story 1890s cream-brick corner saloon at South 2nd and West Pierce Streets in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood. The building has a continuous tavern history that includes a working-class saloon, an early-20th-century boarding house and brothel for dock workers, a Prohibition 'soft-drink parlor' (a common speakeasy euphemism), and the old Union House tavern. Sam Berman opened Sabbatic in December 2009 as a DIY punk-rock bar and live-music venue.
Madison, WI
The Capitol Square and King Street walk operates within Madison's oldest commercial corridor — a district platted in the 1830s as the territorial capital and built up across the 19th century with hotels, taverns, and political clubrooms whose footprints remain in today's streetscape.
Madison, WI
The Madison Lost Souls of State Street tour, operated by American Ghost Walks, was founded by Mike Huberty in 2010 as the first ghost tour in Wisconsin's capital city. The route covers State Street — the pedestrian-priority corridor connecting the Wisconsin State Capitol to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus — and centers on documented witness reports from the corridor's historic theaters and bars.
Madison, WI
The University of Wisconsin–Madison was founded in 1848, and the Bascom Hill core of the modern campus was the site of an 1837–1846 settler cemetery. The Madison UW Campus Ghost Walk covers Bascom Hill, Science Hall, and additional sites with documented institutional history and reported paranormal accounts.
Madison, WI
Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison opened in 1928 as both a student union and a war memorial honoring veterans of World War I. Plans for the building began in 1919 and groundbreaking took place on Armistice Day 1925 before a crowd of 5,000. The Union sits on the shores of Lake Mendota and remains one of the university's most visited public spaces.
Kenosha, WI
The Durkee Mansion was built in 1861 by Charles Durkee, an early Wisconsin settler completing his term as U.S. Senator. Beginning in 1865 the property was converted into Kemper Hall, an Episcopal girls school operated by the Sisters of St. Mary that ran for 105 years until its closure in 1975.
Kenosha, WI
Peter Rhode, a German immigrant and Kenosha hotelier, opened the original 1,000-seat Rhode Opera House in downtown Kenosha in 1890. The original theater burned in 1896, was rebuilt, and was demolished in 1927 by the Saxe Amusement Company, which constructed the Gateway Theater on the site. The Lakeside Players purchased the building in 1988 and operate it today as the Rhode Center for the Arts.
Kewaunee, WI
The Hotel Karsten opened on Valentine's Day 1913 in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, replacing an earlier wood inn called The Steamboat House that burned in the early 1910s. Built and operated by William Karsten Sr., the 52-room Arts and Crafts hotel sits on the Lake Michigan shoreline and remains one of the few surviving hotels of its period in the region.
Kewaunee, WI
The Karsten Inn opened on Valentine's Day 1913 as Hotel Karsten, built by William Karsten Sr. on the site of an earlier wooden lodging known as the Steamboat House that burned in the early 1910s. The building featured 52 rooms, a 90-seat dining room, and a bar with its own entrance.
Oconomowoc, WI
Fowler Lake is a small natural lake in downtown Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, part of the city's chain of recreational lakes. It covers approximately 70 surface acres and is bordered by Fowler Park and the historic Oconomowoc downtown commercial district.
Oconomowoc, WI
LaBelle Cemetery in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin was established in 1851 as the town's first official burial ground, originally known as Henshall Place. In 1864, the Wisconsin Legislature authorized the removal of all remains from the original Walnut Street cemetery to the current La Belle grounds. The cemetery now holds more than 8,000 interments and contains over 90 veterans of the Civil War.
Oshkosh, WI
The Grand Opera House opened on August 9, 1883 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and is the oldest continuously operating theater building in the state. The Victorian-era hall was designed by architect William Waters and continues to host performances under the management of The Grand Oshkosh.
Oshkosh, WI
The Winnebago Mental Health Institute opened in 1873 as the Northern State Hospital for the Insane, on a Lake Winnebago shoreline campus near Oshkosh. The original Kirkbride-plan main building was completed in 1875 with 500 beds and was demolished in stages during the 1950s and 1960s as the campus shifted to a cluster of specialized halls including Sherman Hall. The facility remains an active state psychiatric hospital under the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Appleton, WI
The Appleton Curling Club was established in 1939 and relocated to its present facility on Westhill Boulevard in January 1960. In 1967, fire damaged the clubhouse but did not destroy the ice rink or compressor room, necessitating rebuilding of the spectators' area.
Athelstane, WI
McClintock Park is a Marinette County campground on the Peshtigo River in Silver Cliff, Wisconsin. On July 9, 1976, campers David Schuldes, 25, and Ellen Matheys, 24, were shot to death here in a double murder that went unsolved for more than four decades. DNA evidence collected from the crime scene eventually led to the 2019 arrest and 2021 conviction of Raymand Vannieuwenhoven, who died in prison in 2022.
Baraboo, WI
The Old Baraboo Inn was built as a boarding house in 1864 directly across from the Baraboo railroad depot. Over a century and a half it served as a honky-tonk bar, a brothel, and a roadhouse said in local accounts to have hosted Prohibition-era figures including Al Capone. It now operates as a bar and grill at 135 Walnut Street and hosts regular ghost-hunt events.
Bayfield, WI
Bayfield, Wisconsin, sits on Lake Superior at the gateway to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and was founded in 1856 as a port for shipping and brownstone quarrying. The Bayfield Ghost Walk meets at the Old Courthouse — now home to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore headquarters — at 415 Washington Avenue.
Berlin, WI
The Berlin Sanctuary complex comprises four structures built between 1908 and 1953 in Berlin, Wisconsin: a church, a rectory, a school, and a convent. The complex served an active religious community through most of the 20th century. American Hauntings, the investigation program founded by paranormal author Troy Taylor in 1993, has been hosting investigation events at the complex and describes it as one of the most documented sites in Wisconsin.
Boltonville, WI
Jay Road is a rural road in Washington County, Wisconsin that runs from Boltonville east to the Lake Michigan shore. A swampy section locally called Seven Bridges Road is closed seasonally for flooding and ice. The underlying hit-and-run incident anchored to the folklore is not confirmed in publicly searchable Washington County records.
Boscobel, WI
The Central House — now known as the Hotel Boscobel — was built in 1865 in Boscobel, Wisconsin by Prussian-born entrepreneur Adam Bobel, who constructed the original two-story limestone structure with a business partner for $5,000. A three-story extension was added in 1873. Fire gutted the building on January 7, 1881, but Bobel rebuilt; the hotel reopened by May 13 of the same year. Adam Bobel managed the property until his death in 1885. In 1898, two traveling salesmen sharing Room 19 conceived the idea that became the Gideons International, one of the world's largest Bible distribution organizations. The building is listed on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
Burlington, WI
Burlington Public Cemetery serves as the primary burial ground for Burlington, Wisconsin. Behind the main cemetery lies an older pioneer cemetery approximately 40 years removed from public consciousness, containing the remains of early Burlington settlers and their families.
Canton, WI
Pioneers Rest Cemetery, also known locally as the Bandli Graveyard, sits north of Canton in Barron County, Wisconsin. The cemetery serves the descendants of Scandinavian pioneer families who settled the area in the late nineteenth century. In 2008, the cemetery was the site of a documented grave robbery in which the remains of an infant interred in 1925 were exhumed and removed.
Caryville, WI
Caryville is an unincorporated community in the town of Rock Creek, Dunn County, Wisconsin, on the south shore of the Chippewa River along State Highway 85. Once a busy late-1800s logging-era settlement, it dwindled to a near-ghost-town, leaving an old schoolhouse, a church, and the nearby Sand Hill Cemetery as its most visible remnants. These sites have become the focus of some of western Wisconsin's most widely retold ghost stories.
Cedarburg, WI
Founder's Park, on the east side of Evergreen Boulevard north of Western Avenue in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, served as the first burial ground for the Trinity Lutheran congregation in the mid-nineteenth century. Sometime before 1877, the original individual headstones were removed and replaced with a single consolidated monument listing the recovered names of those interred.
Chippewa Falls, WI
The Sheeley House Saloon was built in 1864 and stands as the oldest continuously operating saloon in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Originally a livery and boarding house, the building came into the hands of Irish immigrant James Sheeley and his wife Kate in 1905. Kate Sheeley died in the building in 1934, an event frequently cited in accounts of the property's paranormal reputation.
Cornell, WI
Cornell Public Library occupies a building constructed in 1928 as the Cornell village hall at 117 N 3rd Street in Chippewa County, Wisconsin. The building's basement originally housed the fire hall, jail cells, and furnace room, while the upper floor served as library and council chamber. The building has undergone minimal remodeling since construction.
East Troy, WI
The Cobblestone Inn, originally the Buena Vista House, was built in East Troy, Wisconsin by mason Samuel R. Bradley, completed in 1849. The largest known cobblestone building in the state, it was considered the finest inn in southeastern Wisconsin and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. After a multi-year preservation effort failed, the three-story building was demolished in May 2022.
Eau Claire, WI
The Grand Opera House opened in Eau Claire in 1883 at a cost of roughly $60,000 (about $1.5 million today), funded by public money and private donations. With 1,500 seats, elaborate fixtures, and a 14-foot chandelier, it was considered one of the finest performing arts venues in the upper Midwest until it closed in 1930.
Elkhart Lake, WI
Lions Park is a community park at 319 Moraine Drive in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, maintained by the Village of Elkhart Lake and equipped by the Elkhart Lake Lions Club. No historical documentation of the childhood accident that underlies the park's paranormal folklore has been found through web search.
Fond du Lac, WI
Hotel Retlaw opened in 1923 as a vision of Walter Schroeder, a Milwaukee-area hotelier who named the property by spelling his first name backwards. The Milwaukee firm of Herbert W. Tullgren & Son designed the eight-story neoclassical red-brick tower, which originally contained 265 guest rooms. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel has survived conversion to a psychiatric facility and subsequent decades of varying uses before its restoration as a boutique hotel.
Genoa, WI
Big River Inn dates to either 1879 or 1896 (sources vary) in Genoa, Wisconsin. The building originally functioned as a restaurant before evolving into a combined inn and restaurant. It now operates as Water View Inn, maintaining its paranormal reputation while serving contemporary hospitality functions.
Glenbeulah, WI
Glenbeulah Cemetery, also known as Walnut Grove Cemetery, contains graves dating to the early 19th century in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. The cemetery's remote woodland setting and its inclusion in a segment of the television program Unsolved Mysteries have made it the most discussed haunted burial ground in the state among paranormal researchers.
Green Bay, WI
The Ferguson Family YMCA at 235 N Jefferson Street in Green Bay, Wisconsin was constructed in 1924 during the city's paper industry boom. The six-story Tudor Revival building served as a residential housing facility for decades before being converted to a fitness and community center. A $13 million renovation modernized the structure while preserving its historic character.
Green Lake, WI
Dartford Cemetery is an old burial ground in the village of Green Lake, Wisconsin, holding pioneer-era burials including Civil War veterans and the relocated grave of Chief Highknocker — a Ho-Chunk leader born Henaga in 1820 who lived around Green Lake (Daycholah) and died in a drowning accident in 1911. His son moved his grave to Dartford in the 1930s.
Hartland, WI
The Inn at 110 Cottonwood Avenue in Hartland, Wisconsin occupies a 1906 building that opened as a hotel along the Watertown Plank Road. Pabst Brewing Company owned the property during its hotel decades. The building reopened in January 2025 as The Inn after a 2019 kitchen fire closed the long-running Hartland Inn restaurant.
Hayward, WI
The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians operates Sevenwinds Casino on land in Sawyer County, Wisconsin. The property was previously a farmstead, and when casino construction began in the 1990s, the farmhouse was physically moved approximately one mile down the road rather than demolished. The casino, originally known as LCO Casino Lodge & Convention Center, rebranded as Sevenwinds Casino, Lodge & Conference Center when a new facility opened on September 21, 2018.
Hubertus, WI
The Fox & Hounds traces its origins to 1845, when the first clerk of Washington County constructed a one-room log cabin in the rolling hills north of Milwaukee. In 1933, equestrian Ray Wolf restored the structure, added a basement bar, and opened it as a restaurant centered on the fox hunts that had become a tradition at the site. The venue has operated continuously for over 90 years.
Janesville, WI
Oak Hill Cemetery is Janesville, Wisconsin's oldest operating burial ground, established in 1851 by the Oak Hill Cemetery Association under an act of the Wisconsin Legislature. The cemetery has grown from 20 to 85 acres and contains more than 24,000 burials, including George Parker of Parker Pen, NPS director Arno Cammerer, and Medal of Honor recipient James E. Croft.
Juneau, WI
Eagle Road Cemetery near Juneau, Wisconsin — also documented as Evangelical Church Cemetery and Tabor Cemetery — is a small rural burial ground along Eagle Road in Dodge County. It is a historic community cemetery associated with a local Lutheran congregation, though it has developed a separate reputation in regional paranormal accounts.
Keshena, WI
The Menominee Casino Resort is owned and operated by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin on tribal land in Keshena. It includes a 103-room hotel, a 13,000-square-foot convention center, and a full casino facility. The resort operates 24 hours daily and serves as the primary economic development venue for the Menominee Nation.
Kohler, WI
The American Club in Kohler, Wisconsin, was built in 1918 by Walter J. Kohler and the Kohler Company as a residence for the company's immigrant workers, complete with citizenship and English classes. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it was renovated and reopened in 1981 as a luxury hotel and remains a AAA Five-Diamond resort and member of Historic Hotels of America.
Ladysmith, WI
The El Rancho Motel in Ladysmith, Wisconsin operates north of town along Highway 27 in the Northwoods region of Rusk County. The property has operated under several names — including Mondor's El Rancho and Northern Lights — and has a long local history that includes a period as a dance hall and, in earlier eras, a house of ill repute. A local newspaper account from 2013 documents the motel's history and the Peavey family's tenure as operators.
Lake Geneva, WI
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, was founded in 1837 and developed in the late 19th century as a resort destination for Chicago industrialists. The Lake Geneva Ghost Walk meets at Seminary Park and covers downtown and lakefront sites including the 1856 Maxwell Mansion and the 1885 Baker House.
Manitowoc, WI
The eight-story building at 204 North 8th Street in downtown Manitowoc opened in 1906 as the New California Hotel. It later operated as the Evergreen Inn before standing vacant in the early 21st century. A $5.2 million historic rehabilitation completed the conversion to the Manitowoc Place apartments, an income-restricted residential building that opened in the early 2010s.
Maribel, WI
The Maribel Caves Hotel was a limestone mineral-springs resort built in 1900 near Maribel in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Developed by Father Francis X. Steinbrecher around the natural springs and caves on the family property, it drew well-to-do guests from Milwaukee and Chicago before declining into a tavern and eventually a fire-gutted, storm-collapsed ruin.
Mequon, WI
Concordia University Wisconsin's 102-acre Mequon campus was purchased on September 15, 1982, from the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who sold the property to the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod for $7.1 million. The sisters had maintained a high school for novices on the lakefront grounds; with diminishing enrollment and a community of 130 resident nuns, the campus was too large to sustain. Concordia moved from downtown Milwaukee to Mequon the following year.
Mineral Point, WI
Walker House was constructed in 1836 in Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, making it one of the oldest inns in the state. The site began as a Cornish miners' cave carved from limestone in the 1820s, expanded into a stone house in 1836, and grew to a three-story structure by the late 1850s. On November 1, 1842, William Caffee was publicly hanged in the inn's yard after a murder conviction — the event most cited in the building's paranormal history.
Monroe, WI
The Ludlow Mansion in Monroe, Wisconsin was built in 1857 by businessman and farmer Arabut Ludlow with his wife Caroline Sanderson-Ludlow. The estate was once part of the Underground Railroad and later became Idle Hour Farm, nationally known for champion trotting horses Peter McKinney and Calumet Delco. Granddaughter May Ludlow Luchsinger restored the home in 1937.
Mukwonago, WI
The building at 215 N Rochester Street in Mukwonago, Wisconsin has operated as a tavern and restaurant since its early days, and for many years was known as Inn the Olden Days. It was renamed Fork in the Road and now operates as a popular scratch-kitchen American restaurant. A fatal fire in an upstairs apartment is part of the building's documented history.
Oak Creek, WI
Bender Park in Oak Creek overlooks Lake Michigan, offering recreational access to the shoreline. The park's location on cliffs above the beach creates natural hazard conditions. The surrounding roads—particularly Fitzsimmons Road and E. Oakwood Road—have acquired dark reputations from multiple tragedies.
Oneida, WI
The Norbert Hill Center in Oneida, Wisconsin occupies a campus that began in 1893 as the Oneida Boarding School, an Indian boarding school that operated under federal authority until 1918. The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay purchased the site in 1924 and reopened it as Guardian Angel Boarding School, later converting it to the Sacred Heart Seminary for Catholic priests in 1954. The Oneida Nation leased the space in 1976 and purchased it from the Diocese in 1984, renaming it for Norbert Hill Sr., a community leader.
Park Falls, WI
Nola Cemetery is a small rural burial ground in Price County near Park Falls, Wisconsin, maintained by the City of Park Falls. The cemetery takes its name from Nola Dell Blackburn (1896-1902), a six-year-old girl whose 1902 death made her the first interment on the site and gave the cemetery its name.
Phillips, WI
Fred Smith, a retired lumberjack and tavern owner born in 1886 to German immigrant parents, began building concrete sculptures on his property along Highway 13 in Phillips, Wisconsin, in 1948. He completed 230 figures before a 1964 stroke ended the work. The Kohler Foundation acquired the site in 1976 and it is now a National Register property.
Plymouth, WI
The Yankee Hill Inn operates from two historic Huson family homes in Plymouth, Wisconsin: the 1870 Gothic Italianate Henry Huson House (on the National Register) and the 1891 Queen Anne Gilbert Huson House. Both homes were built by affluent brothers in the Yankee Hill neighborhood and reflect the woodworking and stone-masonry craftsmanship of the period.
Portage, WI
Church Road Cemetery is a small mid-19th-century rural burial ground at the end of a dead-end road off County Highway O, roughly six miles west of Portage in Columbia County, Wisconsin. The cemetery, with stones dating back to around the 1850s, no longer accepts burials and sits hidden in a thicket of trees.
Racine, WI
Pritchard Park is a 79-acre Racine County community park at 2800 Ohio Street in Racine, Wisconsin, containing the Racine County Veterans Memorial (dedicated 1993), restored wetlands, a 9-acre woodlot, sports fields, and the SC Johnson Community Aquatic Center.
Ripon, WI
The C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts is Ripon College's performing- and visual-arts complex in Ripon, Wisconsin. Construction began in 1971, with the Caestecker wing added in the 1990s, and it became the permanent home of the college's theater and music programs after earlier homes in the Red Barn Theatre and a temporary stint in the former Grace Lutheran Church.
South Milwaukee, WI
Grant Park is a 381-acre Milwaukee County park established in 1899 along Lake Michigan in what is now South Milwaukee. The Seven Bridges Trail crosses a wooded ravine system via a covered wooden entrance bridge — inscribed with the line 'Enter this wild wood and view the haunts of nature' — and six interior wooden bridges down to a Lake Michigan beach trail. The park is operated by the Milwaukee County Parks System.
Spooner, WI
Frank Hammill (1857–1922) was a railroad engineer, newspaper publisher, and politician known as the 'Father of Spooner.' He moved to Spooner, Wisconsin in 1902, consolidated two local newspapers into the Spooner Advocate, served as the city's mayor from 1910 to 1918, and died at the home he built on Summit Avenue in February 1922.
Stevens Point, WI
The Highway 66 bridge near Jordan Park in Stevens Point, Wisconsin has no documented tragedy in accessible historical records despite the persistent legend attached to it. No newspaper archives or police records confirm a bride's death at this location. The site sits in Portage County's central Wisconsin corridor and is a popular seasonal destination for folklore enthusiasts.
Stockbridge, WI
Joe Road in the Town of Stockbridge, Calumet County, Wisconsin is a documented 'gravity hill' site on the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago, where a slightly-downhill road appears to climb due to a surrounding-horizon optical illusion. The Stockbridge name reflects the historical presence of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican community in the region.
Superior, WI
Fairlawn Mansion was completed in 1891 as the 42-room Queen Anne home of lumber baron Martin Pattison, a three-time mayor of Superior, Wisconsin. After his 1918 death, his widow Grace donated the house to the Superior Children's Home and Refuge Society, which ran it as an orphanage until 1962. The City of Superior acquired the property in 1963 and now operates it as a public museum.
Washington Island, WI
Nelsen's Hall has operated on Washington Island in Door County since 1899, founded by Danish immigrant Tom Nelsen as a dance hall. During Prohibition, Nelsen obtained a pharmacist's license solely to dispense Angostura Bitters as medicinal alcohol — a ruse that kept the establishment open and established the Bitters Club tradition still maintained today. Nelsen died at age 90 in an upstairs room in 1960.
Waterford, WI
The Tichigan Lake Inn at 28837 Beach Drive in Waterford, Wisconsin was constructed in the 1920s and operated as a Prohibition-era speakeasy linked to Chicago organized-crime liquor trafficking that moved barrels of whiskey by horse and wagon up to Highway 164 for shipment to Chicago. The building most recently operated as What About Linda's and is reported closed at that address.
Waukesha, WI
Waukesha rose to national prominence in the 1860s and 1870s as Springs City — a destination resort built around mineral water claimed to have medicinal properties. Many of the route's downtown stops were constructed during that era; the Riverwalk now follows the Fox River through the historic core.
Wauwatosa, WI
Muirdale Tuberculosis Sanatorium was built by Milwaukee County in 1914 and 1915 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Named for Wisconsin-raised naturalist John Muir, it pioneered the centralized three-story TB sanatorium design that became a model nationwide. Muirdale ceased TB treatment in the 1960s and closed entirely in 1978. Its main building survives as the Technology Innovation Center within the Milwaukee County Research Park, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
Weyauwega, WI
Marsh Road is a short rural road in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, running south from State Highway 54 on the east side of White Lake near Weyauwega. The road is paved for approximately one mile before transitioning to unpaved ground as it enters the wetland. It has no road markings. The county road is unremarkable by day; it gained a regional paranormal reputation in local oral tradition and through periodic documentation by Wisconsin paranormal researchers.
Wild Rose, WI
Tuttle Lake is a small lake in Waushara County, Wisconsin, near the village of Wild Rose. The Village of Wild Rose's official history records the Tuttle Lake shoreline as a longstanding Native American camping ground in the period before European settlement, when seasonal gatherings drew hundreds of indigenous visitors.
Wisconsin Dells, WI
The Showboat Saloon building was constructed in 1907 as a tavern on the ground floor with railroad office space on the second floor. Originally called Stanton's Palm Garden, operated by William and Minnie Stanton, it survived Prohibition and resumed tavern operations until 1965, when it became the Showboat Saloon with a focus on live music. The building has since been associated with the Wisconsin Dells ghost tour circuit under the name Ghost Molly's Showboat Saloon.
Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Hotel Mead at 451 East Grand Avenue in Wisconsin Rapids has operated as a resort and conference center for decades. Its basement level, known as the Shanghai Room, served as a bar and gambling operation in the 1950s. The establishment continues in operation today as one of the area's primary lodging venues.