A Patriotic Family Road Trip in Wisconsin

Wisconsin State Capitol

Madison, WI

Madison's 1917 capitol has one of the tallest domes in the country, topped by a gilded bronze statue simply named "Wisconsin."

Wisconsin Veterans Museum

Madison, WI

A free museum on the Madison Capitol Square tracing Wisconsin service members from the Civil War through today.

Milwaukee Soldiers Home

Milwaukee, WI

The 1867 Old Main of one of the first three national homes for disabled volunteer soldiers, a National Historic Landmark.

Kenosha Civil War Museum

Kenosha, WI

A museum of the Civil War as experienced by the people of the Upper Midwest, at home and at the front.

Taliesin

Spring Green, WI

Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin home, studio and school, built into the hillside.

Pabst Mansion

Milwaukee, WI

The 1892 Flemish Renaissance home of brewer Captain Frederick Pabst, saved from demolition in the 1970s.

Old World Wisconsin

Eagle, WI

An open-air museum of farms and homes built by Wisconsin's immigrants: Germans, Norwegians, Finns, Poles and more.

Forest Home Cemetery

Milwaukee, WI

An 1850 garden cemetery holding brewers Pabst, Schlitz and Blatz alongside generations of Milwaukee civic leaders.

SC Johnson Administration Building

Racine, WI

Frank Lloyd Wright's 1939 office building with its forest of tall "lily pad" columns, still used by the company.

Basilica of St. Josaphat

Milwaukee, WI

A basilica completed in 1901 by Polish immigrants, built from the stone of the demolished Chicago Post Office.

EAA Aviation Museum

Oshkosh, WI

Two hundred aircraft and the home of the largest fly-in on earth.

Mitchell Gallery of Flight

Milwaukee, WI

An aviation museum inside the airport named for General Billy Mitchell, the Milwaukee-raised champion of American air power.

Milwaukee County War Memorial Center

Milwaukee, WI

A memorial by architect Eero Saarinen, dedicated in 1957 "to honor the dead by serving the living," on the lakefront.

Wood National Cemetery

Milwaukee, WI

A national cemetery founded in 1871 beside the Milwaukee Soldiers Home, with veterans of every war since the Civil War.

Harley-Davidson Museum

Milwaukee, WI

The company museum of the motorcycle maker William Harley and the Davidson brothers founded in a Milwaukee shed in 1903.

Cedarburg Covered Bridge

Cedarburg, WI

An 1876 bridge over Cedar Creek, the last remaining historic covered bridge in Wisconsin.