148 haunted destinations cataloged across Wisconsin, spanning 61 counties. The collection features museum, other dark tourism site, and haunted dining — 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 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
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 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 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
The first Modjeska Theatre on West Mitchell Street opened in 1910, named in honor of Polish-born stage actress Helena Modjeska, who had died in 1909 with a substantial following in Milwaukee's Polonia neighborhood. Saxe Theatres acquired the property in 1920 and demolished it to build a 2,500-seat Rapp and Rapp-designed movie palace, which opened August 2, 1924. The Modjeska has operated as a movie house, vaudeville stage, community theater, and event venue across its century-long life.
Milwaukee, WI
The first North Point Lighthouse was established on Milwaukee's east-side bluff in 1855 to guide Lake Michigan shipping. Erosion threatened the original tower by the 1880s, and in 1888 a 40-foot cast-iron tower was built 100 feet inland alongside a new Queen Anne keeper's quarters. The structure was raised to 74 feet in 1912 to clear the rising tree canopy of Lake Park, which Frederick Law Olmsted's firm designed around the lighthouse. Decommissioned in 1994 and restored as a museum in 2007.
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.
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
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.
Green Bay, WI
The Astor House was built in 1888 in Green Bay's historic Astor neighborhood, on land associated with John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company operations in the early 19th century. The property later came under the ownership of Dr. Julius Bellin, a prominent local physician whose tenure is cited in the building's paranormal lore.
Green Bay, WI
Built in 1857 for politician Elijah Morrow, the Captain's Walk building passed to his daughter Helen, who eventually lost it to financial hardship. The foundation walls incorporate gravestones from relocated cemeteries.
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 Bay, WI
Green Bay Ghost Tours operates walking tours of downtown Green Bay's historically significant buildings, most of which carry independent documented paranormal reputations. The Astor House Historic District, Meyer Theatre, and Captain's Walk Winery are among the established stops.
Green Bay, WI
Hazelwood was built in 1837 by Morgan L. Martin, a Wisconsin territorial legislator, first mayor of Green Bay, and federal district court judge. The Greek Revival mansion served as the Martin family home for generations and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Green Bay, WI
Fort Howard Hospital was constructed in the 1830s as part of the U.S. Army garrison at Fort Howard, on the west bank of the Fox River at Green Bay. The original fort, established in 1816 to secure the region after the War of 1812, became obsolete by the 1850s. The hospital building was preserved and relocated to Heritage Hill State Historical Park in 1975, where it stands as one of the park's authentic military-era structures.
Green Bay, WI
The Meyer Theatre opened in 1930 as one of Green Bay's premier entertainment venues, built in the Art Deco style during the height of the movie palace era. The building has operated continuously as a performance venue and anchors the city's Washington Street arts district.
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Dr. William Edward Minahan was a physician from Green Bay who booked first-class passage on the Titanic with his wife and sister. He died when the ship sank on April 15, 1912, and his body was recovered from the North Atlantic. He was returned to Green Bay and interred in a Neoclassical mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery. In 1985, trophy hunters broke into the mausoleum and removed his skull; police recovered it and it was reinterred.
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Gillette Safety Tire Company built the plant in 1917 along the Eau Claire River; at peak output it produced 30,000 tires per day. During World War II the federal government converted it to an ordnance plant employing 6,200 workers — 61 percent women — and earning an Army-Navy E Award for production excellence in 1943. Uniroyal ran it through 1992, when 1,358 workers lost their jobs at closure. Developers Bill Cigan and Jack Kaiser purchased the property that same year and renamed it Banbury Place.
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This cemetery served residents of the Eau Claire County Insane Asylum and Poor Farm, established in the 1880s. Many buried here were patients or indigent residents of the county farm whose identities were not preserved. The asylum building was demolished in 1991 and the site transitioned to parkland. A historical marker was installed, and in 2007 the cemetery was formally renamed Old Orchard Cemetery.
Eau Claire, WI
The Eau Claire Dark History Trolley Tour is operated by the Chippewa River Trolley and runs September through November on Friday and Saturday evenings. It departs from The Local Store at 205 N Dewey St in downtown Eau Claire. The tour was developed to highlight the city's criminal past, Victorian underworld, and historic architecture, with the 1908 Putnam Chapel at Forest Hill Cemetery as its most distinctive stop.
Eau Claire, WI
Forest Hill Cemetery was established in the late 1850s and is Eau Claire's oldest active cemetery, with more than 12,000 burials. The Jane E. Putnam Memorial Chapel was constructed in 1908 following a bequest by Jane Balcolm Putnam, who died in 1907. The Neogothic stone chapel was designed with 24 receiving vaults in its apse to hold bodies through winter months when the frozen ground prevented burial. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2000.
Eau Claire, WI
The Kjer Theatre at UW-Eau Claire is named for Earl S. Kjer, a drama and speech professor who spent his career building the university's theatre program. Kjer died of a heart attack at age 61 in 1965. The theatre was named in his honor and remains the department's primary performance space.
Eau Claire, WI
Constructed 1893–1894 as the Cameron-Drummond-Slagsvold Building, the Gothic-style structure served as home to the Chippewa Valley Bank and multiple commercial tenants before becoming a bar in downtown Eau Claire.
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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.
Wausau, WI
The Grand Theater opened in November 1927 on the site of the 1899 Grand Opera House, which it replaced after the original structure was demolished. It serves as Wausau's primary performing arts venue and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Wausau, WI
The McCrossen Block at 501 Third St N is the oldest surviving commercial building in Wausau, constructed in 1875 in the Italianate Commercial style. On September 16, 1880, dentist J.C. Bennet shot rival physician Dr. E.L. Hagel in his office inside the building. Bennet was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, making the case one of the first documented murders in Wausau's history.
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Shepherd & Schaller Sporting Goods has occupied 324 Scott St in downtown Wausau since 1949, making it one of the longer-running retail establishments in the city. The building predates the sporting goods store and previously housed a J.C. Penney department store.
Wausau, WI
The 1901 Colonial-style building was constructed as the Wausau Club, a private social organization for the city's business and civic elite during Wausau's lumber boom. It includes a Prohibition-era tunnel that connected the club to adjacent buildings. It is now the home of the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art.
Wausau, WI
The Wausau Paranormal Research Society was founded by Shawn Blaschka and has conducted documented investigations of Marathon County locations for multiple years. The WPRS launched its annual October ghost tours as a public outreach effort, combining its investigative record with theatrical reenactors to produce a walking tour circuit through downtown Wausau.
Wausau, WI
The Yawkey House was built in 1900 for lumber baron Cyrus C. Yawkey in the Classical Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operated today by the Marathon County Historical Society as a house museum.
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.
Appleton, WI
Spooks & Spirits Paranormal Tours runs commercial ghost tours of Appleton's historic downtown, centering on the city's documented dark history: Harry Houdini was born in Budapest but came of age in Appleton, and died on Halloween 1926 from a ruptured appendix after a punch to the abdomen. The tour also covers the Outagamie County Asylum — long since demolished — and College Avenue's roster of reportedly haunted commercial buildings.
Appleton, WI
Built in 1882 for Henry James Rogers, the Hearthstone became world-famous on September 30, 1882, when it became the first private residence anywhere to be lit by a central hydroelectric power station using Thomas Edison's system. The mansion later passed to the Priest family.
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The Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic Insane opened in 1889 and operated until 2001, when it closed as Outagamie County Health Center on the former Brewster Village campus. During its 112-year history, the institution housed hundreds of patients and generated two major scandals: a 1913 lawsuit over unauthorized castrations performed on patients by superintendent George Downer, who died by suicide in 1915, and an abuse investigation in 1943-44. Of the 133 patients buried in the asylum cemetery between 1891 and 1943, most were interred without family notification; headstones naming each person were installed in 2015 after a community rededication effort.
Appleton, WI
The Zuelke Building was completed in 1932 for Irving Zuelke, an Appleton music merchant who built the 12-story neo-Gothic tower as Appleton's tallest building of its era. Designed in the American Gothic Revival commercial style, it dominated the downtown skyline for decades and remains a visual landmark on College Avenue.
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
The Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library was designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham and opened in 1900, funded by the estate of Zalmon Simmons Sr. in memory of his son Gilbert. The neoclassical building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and remains an active branch of the Kenosha Public Library system.
Kenosha, WI
On July 23, 1850, John McCaffary drowned his wife Bridget in the cistern behind this Kenosha house. His 1851 hanging was so badly botched — he strangled for 20 minutes before 2,000 to 3,000 witnesses — that the public outcry helped propel Wisconsin to abolish capital punishment in 1853, making it the first U.S. state to do so.
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.
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The SS Wisconsin was an iron-hulled package freight steamer launched in 1881. On October 29–30, 1929, it sank in a northeasterly gale on Lake Michigan approximately 6.5 miles SSE of Kenosha, killing nine of its crew. The wreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
La Crosse, WI
The building at 122 S 4th St operated as the Malin Pool and Sample Room under owner Paul Malin in the late 19th century. Malin allegedly died by suicide on the premises in 1901. The property has changed hands multiple times in the century since.
La Crosse, WI
Del's Bar is one of La Crosse's older operating saloons, with roots in the city's founding era. It sits in the downtown corridor that formed La Crosse's commercial and entertainment district along the Mississippi River waterfront.
La Crosse, WI
Built in 1880 by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway as a freight depot, the building served La Crosse's commercial rail traffic for decades before being converted to a restaurant. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
La Crosse, WI
Footsteps of La Crosse operates ticketed ghost and dark walking tours through downtown La Crosse, a city with a well-documented history of riverfront commerce, saloon culture, and red-light district activity going back to the 1860s. The tour has been featured in Wisconsin Great River Road tourism coverage.
La Crosse, WI
The building at 224 Pearl St was constructed in 1888 and is located within La Crosse's National Register historic downtown district. It housed clothing stores and tailor shops before being converted to an all-ages music venue.
Fond du Lac, WI
Edwin H. Galloway built this 30-room Italianate mansion in 1880. It remained in the Galloway family for generations before being donated to the Fond du Lac County Historical Society, which now manages it as the centerpiece of a living-history museum village.
Fond du Lac, WI
Isaac Brown built this eight-sided home in 1856 following the octagon-house design promoted by Orson Fowler. The home features nine secret passageways and a tunnel connecting to the woodshed. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and is managed today by the Fond du Lac County Historical Society.
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.
Fond du Lac, WI
Rienzi Cemetery sits on land in Fond du Lac County once associated with Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, a former U.S. Senator from New York who relocated to Wisconsin in the 1840s and became a prominent figure in the American Spiritualist movement, claiming to receive communications from the dead.
Janesville, WI
Built in 1903 with Carnegie philanthropy funding, the building served as one of Wisconsin's first Carnegie libraries before transitioning to use as Janesville's senior center. Local dark-history author Mitch Goth documented a child's death on the property around 1898–1899, prior to the building's construction.
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Janesville, WI
The Lincoln-Tallman House is an 1857 Italianate mansion built by abolitionist attorney William M. Tallman in Janesville, Wisconsin. Abraham Lincoln stayed here October 1–3, 1859, making it the only documented Wisconsin overnight of the future president. The Tallman family donated the house to the city in 1950 on condition it be preserved as a public museum; the Rock County Historical Society has operated it since.
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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.
Janesville, WI
The Looking Glass Bar occupies a historic commercial building in downtown Janesville. It is one of three Janesville locations featured in the published book '30 Haunted Nights in Wisconsin,' which documented staff and patron paranormal accounts at the bar.
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.
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Evans Hall is a residence hall on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus. Student accounts of unexplained activity began circulating at least as early as 2018, documented by the campus newspaper and a dedicated Tumblr archive maintained by students.
Oshkosh, WI
The Beckwith House Hotel rose in 1876 as part of Oshkosh's reconstruction after the catastrophic fire of 1875. Four years later, a second fire started by a kerosene lamp killed several guests including a Mrs. Paige, whose death is tied to the cafe's most persistently reported haunting.
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.
Racine, WI
Racine College was founded in 1852 under Rev. James DeKoven, an Episcopal clergyman who led the institution until his death on the grounds in 1879 and is buried in a marked grave there. The adjacent Evergreen Cemetery, established 1851, was incompletely relocated when the lakefront eroded — human remains were still surfacing as recently as 2017 as the bluff continued to erode into Lake Michigan.
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.
Racine, WI
The Racine County Insane Asylum opened in December 1889 on the city's west side, housing patients from the county poorhouse system. On February 19, 1904, a fire destroyed the main building while 133 patients were inside; all were evacuated. The rebuilt facility later added the Sunny Rest Tuberculosis Sanatorium (c. 1913–1962). Renamed High Ridge Health Care Center in its later years, the campus closed October 1, 1986, and was demolished starting in October 1988. A pauper's burial ground — the East Meadows section of what is now Pritchard Park — was never fully cleared.
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Racine established its first official municipal cemetery at this location in 1842. In 1852–53, when the city expanded, the cemetery was ordered relocated and a school was built on the grounds. The exhumation was incomplete: at least two full skeletons and scattered bone fragments surfaced over subsequent decades, with children reportedly finding human remains in the schoolyard.
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Graceland Cemetery in Mineral Point, Iowa County, was established in 1863 and occupies land adjacent to the Iowa County Fairgrounds. The cemetery achieved regional notoriety as the site of the Mineral Point Vampire incident of March 14, 1981, when Officer Jon Pepper filed an official police report after pursuing a 6'5" figure in a black cape and white face paint through the grounds before it vanished over a four-foot fence.
Mineral Point, WI
The Mineral Point Opera House was built in 1889–1890 at 139 High St in downtown Mineral Point, Iowa County. The building has operated continuously as a performing arts venue and retains much of its original Victorian interior.
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.
Waukesha, WI
Established by German immigrant John Hille in the nineteenth century, the Waukesha County farm became the site of a documented 1918 tragedy. Siblings William and Hulda Hille, under threat of extortion from a farmhand who claimed they were German spies, killed five horses and a dog before William shot himself and Hulda died from poison and a self-inflicted wound.
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Waukesha, WI
Frank Putney (1841–1914) built this house in 1901 after a career that included Union Army service at Vicksburg and Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, and later stints as village president, postmaster, and county judge of Waukesha. The Waukesha Freeman called the house 'possibly the finest in the city' upon his death. In 1990 the building became the Waukesha Chamber of Commerce.
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.
Beloit, WI
The Gallagher Building at the corner of St. Lawrence Avenue and Hackett Street on Beloit's west side was once a grocery store operated by an Irish immigrant family. During the 1918 influenza pandemic, all of the family's children died. Local accounts have associated the building with paranormal activity ever since.
Beloit, WI
Built in 1857 of locally quarried limestone, the Hanchett-Bartlett Homestead served as a working farm on the edge of Beloit for generations. It is now operated as a museum by the Beloit Historical Society, documenting 19th-century rural life and the Bartlett family's long tenure on the property through the influenza era and beyond.
Kewaunee, WI
The Kewaunee County Jail was built in 1875 in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, and served as the county's primary detention facility until 1969. The Kewaunee County Historical Society now operates the building as a museum, with the original 19th-century iron cells preserved and open to the public. The jail is among the older surviving county lockup structures in northeastern Wisconsin.
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.
Manitowoc, WI
The building at 901 S. 8th Street in Manitowoc dates to 1851, making it one of the older commercial structures in the city. Dawn Dabeck, who operated a seasonal haunted attraction called the House of Bathory for 25 years, opened Dead by Dawn here in 2015 as a year-round alternative — the first establishment explicitly marketed as a Dead and Breakfast.
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.
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.
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.
Washington Island, WI
Rock Island, at the northern tip of Door County, holds Wisconsin's oldest lighthouse: the Pottawatomie Light, first lit in 1837 (construction began 1836) before statehood. The current 1858 stone structure replaced a poorly built original and served civilian keepers until automation in 1946. The State of Wisconsin acquired the island in 1965, creating Rock Island State Park; the lighthouse was NRHP-listed in 1979 and restored to its 1910-era appearance by 2004.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPBoltonville, 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPBurlington, 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.
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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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPCaryville, 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPCedarburg, 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPElkhart 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.
Fifield, WI
Forest Home Cemetery is the primary burial ground for the Town of Fifield in Price County, Wisconsin. It succeeded an earlier cemetery on the north edge of town that was prone to flooding; most graves from the original site were relocated here. The cemetery is managed by the Town of Fifield and is surrounded by North Woods forest land.
Fish Creek, WI
Chambers Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1868 on a remote island in northern Green Bay, serving as a navigation aid for vessels entering the waters between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island. First keeper Lewis Williams was appointed at the station's opening and served 21 years, raising 11 children on the island before retiring in 1889.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPGlenbeulah, 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPGreen 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.
Greenbush, WI
The Sylvanus Wade House, built around 1851-1853 in Greenbush, Wisconsin, served as a plank-road stagecoach inn along the Green Bay to Fond du Lac plank road. It is now operated as a Wisconsin state historic site museum by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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.
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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.
Linwood, WI
Boy Scout Lane is a 2,500-foot unpaved road in the Town of Linwood, Portage County, running through land that the Boy Scouts of America once intended to develop as a campsite. The camp was never built; the road was named for the BSA ownership and has remained a dead-end rural lane. No historical tragedy is documented on the property.
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.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPPark 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPPortage, 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.
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.
Sheboygan, WI
The Lottie Cooper was a three-masted lumber schooner built in 1876 that capsized in Sheboygan harbor during a gale on April 9, 1894. One crew member drowned trying to reach shore; five of the six-man crew survived. The 89-foot center section of the hull was salvaged in 1992 and placed on permanent display at Deland Park.
Sheboygan Falls, WI
The Sheboygan County Health Care Center opened in 1939 as a psychiatric and developmental-disability facility. During World War II, from 1944 to 1945, it was commandeered as Camp Sheboygan, housing German and Italian prisoners of war. The facility operated until 2002. The still-standing original building now operates as a weekly paranormal investigation venue, marketed as Wisconsin's only real-asylum ghost-investigation destination.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPStevens 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.
Sturgeon Bay, WI
Completed in 1883 on a wooded point on the western shore of Door Peninsula, Sherwood Point Lighthouse was the last lighthouse on all five Great Lakes to remain staffed by a human keeper, with the Coast Guard manning it continuously until 1983. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is now operated in partnership with the Door County Maritime Museum.
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.
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.
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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPWeyauwega, 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.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPWild 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.