If you’re taking a Duck tour for the scenery, stick with the Original Wisconsin Ducks. It offers the best Duck route in town. The 60-minute tour begins in a patch of forest near the Wisconsin River, first passing discarded concrete statues that once graced the Chicago Board of Trade. (Odd, but interesting.) Then you dip into cool, leafy Fern Dell,...

Frank Lloyd Wright fanatics, the Seth Peterson Cottage is your dream come true. The cottage is one of the famous architect’s last commissions – in 1958, when Wright was 90. The cottage is tucked into the woods near Mirror Lake just outside the Dells. Unfortunately, the cottage’s owner, Seth Peterson, died before it was finished. Subsequent owners completed the structure,...

Calling all train buffs! Mid-Continent Railway Museum is an outdoor living history museum and operating railroad that showcases and recreates small-town rail experiences from 1880-1916. You’ll see everything from a restored depot and engine house to a crossing shanty and coach shed here. There are also plenty of trains, such as a SOO #15604, the museum’s premiere wooden boxcar restoration....