Wisconsin
251 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- America's Dairyland, The Cheese Culture and How It Got Here
- Five Nations, One Homeland, Wisconsin's Native Nations Before the Treaties
- Lead and the Badger, How Wisconsin Got Its Nickname
- Robert La Follette and the Wisconsin Idea, The State as Laboratory
- Statehood and the Wisconsin Character, Eighteen Forty-Eight
- Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Hill He Kept Rebuilding
- The Fur Trade, Two Centuries Before the Farmers Came
- The Labor State, From the Eight-Hour Day to Act Ten
- The Northwoods and the Lakes, A State Built Around Water
- The Peshtigo Fire, The Night Half a County Burned
- The Treaty Era, Cessions, Removal, and the Fight to Stay
- White Pine and the Cutover, The Lumber Era That Remade Wisconsin
Near Baraboo
- Aldo Leopold Died Here
- Aldo Leopold's Sand County Farm
- Aldo Leopold's Shack and the Land Ethic
- Badger Ordnance Works: Powder, Prairie, and the Ho-Chunk
- Battle of Wisconsin Heights
- Circus World: Keeping the Big Top Alive
- Devils Lake: A Billion-Year-Old Landscape
- H. H. Bennett Studio
- H. H. Bennett Studio
- How Baraboo Got Its Name
- Lake Redstone, One Man's Dream
- Lyndon Station, Wisconsin
- Ringlingville: Where the Greatest Show on Earth Was Born
- Riverside and Great Northern Railway
- Seth Peterson Cottage: A Wright House Born from a Bounced Retainer
- Seth Peterson Cottage: Frank Lloyd Wright's Last Wisconsin Building
- Seth Peterson Cottage: Wright's Last Gift
- Setting the Baraboo River Free
- Tee Wakacak: The Ho-Chunk Sacred Lake
- Tee Wakącąk: The Sacred Lake
- The Al Ringling Theatre: A Palace on the Prairie
- The Ho-Chunk: Removed, Returned, Removed Again
- The International Crane Foundation: Saving the World's Cranes
- The Island Woolen Mill: Baraboo's Great Employer
- The Man Mound: A Giant in the Earth
- The Shack: Where Aldo Leopold Listened to the Land
- The Shack: Where Land Ethics Were Born
- Walking the Edge of the Last Glacier
- Wisconsin Dells: Canyon, Camera, and Waterparks
- Wisconsin Dells: From Sacred Gorge to Waterpark Capital
- Wisconsin Dells: Sandstone Canyons and the Birth of the Tourist Trap
- Wisconsin Heights: The Last Stand Before the Bad Axe
Near Bayfield
Near Duluth
Near Green Bay
- Denmark, Wisconsin
- First Episcopal Mission in Wisconsin
- Fort La Baye and the Fur Trade Gateway
- Founding the Packers: Lambeau, Calhoun, and Five Hundred Dollars
- Grassy Island Range Lights
- Hazelwood and the Wisconsin Constitution
- Red Banks and Jean Nicolet's Robe
- Tank Cottage: Wisconsin's Oldest Building
- The Birthplace of Curly Lambeau
- The Fox-Wisconsin Waterway: The Continent's Interstate
- The Ice Bowl: December Thirty-First, Nineteen Sixty-Seven
- The Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and the Land Before the Forts
- The National Railroad Museum: Eisenhower's Train and the Big Boy
- The Oneida Relocation: New York to Wisconsin
- The Port of Green Bay: Lumber, Flour, and a Seaway to the World
- Toilet Paper Capital: The Fox River Paper Industry
- Vince Lombardi and the Turnaround
- Voie de la Liberté Milestone
Near Lake Geneva
- A Lake Made of Ice: The Glacial Origins of Geneva Lake
- Delavan, Wisconsin — Circus Capital
- Delavan's Civil War Muster Tree
- Devil Dogs: The Marine Corps League's Inner Circle
- Gary Gygax and the Game That Changed Everything
- Lake Geneva Today: Layers on a Glacial Lake
- Lake Geneva: Chicago's Summer Escape
- Lake Geneva: The Newport of the West
- The Chicago Fire and the Estate Era
- The Playboy Club Hotel and the Grand Geneva
- The Shore Path: A Potawatomi Road That Never Closed
- Yerkes Observatory: The Largest Refracting Telescope Ever Built
Near Madison
- Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic
- Capital Springs: Early Woodland People on the Lake Waubesa Shore
- DeForest, Wisconsin
- Dow Day: October 18, 1967
- Fighting Bob La Follette
- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Sixty-Year Dream
- James Duane Doty's Paper City
- John Muir at the University: Where Yosemite Got Its Theory
- McFarland: The Englishman Who Built a Depot and Named a Town
- National Mustard Museum
- Otis Redding and Lake Monona
- Sifting and Winnowing: The Plaque Outside Bascom Hall
- State Street: The Mile Between Two Worlds
- Sterling Hall: Three Forty-Two in the Morning
- Stoughton's Main Street: Where Norway Came to Wisconsin
- Teejop: The Place Between Four Lakes
- The Capitol That Burned and Came Back
- The Dane County Farmers Market: Largest in America
- The Dean House: A UW Regent's Farm Saved from the Wrecking Ball
- The House That Changed American Architecture
- The Isthmus: A City Built on a Ribbon of Land
- The Wisconsin Idea
- Vel Phillips: Five Failed Ordinances and One Enduring Answer
- Verona, Wisconsin: From Farm Town to Epic Systems
- Voluntarios Internacionales de la Libertad
- Where Ecological Restoration Began
- Wright's Solar Hemicycle
Near Milwaukee
- A.O. Smith: A Frame Every Eight Seconds
- Bay View, May 5, 1886
- Bronzeville: Built Inside a Cage, Then Bulldozed
- Frank Zeidler's Milwaukee at the Height of McCarthyism
- Gesu: The Jesuit Cathedral of Wisconsin Avenue
- Golda Meir's Milwaukee
- Granville: The Town That Milwaukee Ate
- Harley-Davidson Museum
- Harley-Davidson: Two Kids and a Borrowed Machine Shop
- Historic Cedarburg
- James Cameron and the Museum Nobody Funded
- Jeremiah Curtin House
- Jones Island, Milwaukee's Fishing Village
- Menomonee Falls: Wild Rice, a River, and a Village That Grew Into a Suburb
- Milwaukee at the Confluence: A City That Keeps Arguing
- Milwaukee: Where the Road Splits
- Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward
- Milwaukee's Juneteenth: The Nation's Oldest Annual Celebration
- Muirdale Sanatorium: Wisconsin's Monument to the White Plague
- Pabst Blue Ribbon and the Medal That Was Not a Medal
- Pewaukee, Wisconsin
- Pewaukee, Wisconsin
- Polish Milwaukee and the Flat That Changed American Housing
- Prohibition and What the Brewers Did Instead
- Schlitz: The Beer That Ruined Itself
- Sewer Socialism: The City That Built Things
- The 1953 Brewery Strike: Seventy-Six Days
- The Allen-Bradley Clock That Ships Navigate By
- The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous
- The Bridge War and the City That Refused to Line Up
- The Calatrava Wings: What a City Decides It Is For
- The Fairview Mausoleum
- The German City Milwaukee Became
- The Milwaukee Fourteen: Napalm on Draft Files
- The Milwaukee Mile: The World's Oldest Motor Speedway
- The Milwaukee Public Museum: Where the Diorama Was Invented
- The Potawatomi Who Named This City
- The Red Arrow Division: Wisconsin's 32nd
- Two Hundred Nights on the Viaduct
- Vel Phillips: The Lone Vote
- Victor Berger: Elected, Expelled, Elected Again
- Waukesha: The Saratoga of the West
- Waukesha: The Saratoga of the West
- What Was Here Before: Greendale, Wisconsin
Near Rockford
Near Stillwater
Along the way
- Altoona, Wisconsin
- Anderson House Hotel — Minnesota's Oldest Inn
- Antigo: Swiss Immigrant, Virgin Pines, and the Northwoods Lumber Rush
- Aztalan: Cahokia's Northern Outpost
- Belgium, Wisconsin
- Birthplace of the Cushing Brothers
- Black River Falls: Lumber, Loss, and the Ho-Chunk Return
- Brokaw: The Company Town That Dissolved Itself
- C-47 Crash at Blue Mound, 1944
- Camp Douglas, Wisconsin
- Carson Park and Hank Aaron
- Carson Park, Where Hank Aaron Started
- Cave of the Mounds: Accidentally Discovered Underground
- Chequamegon-Nicolet: Logging, Recovery, and the Forest That Came Back
- Dickeyville Grotto — Six Years of Shells, Glass, and Faith
- Door County: Limestone, Cherries, and the Door of the Dead
- EAA Aviation Museum: Where Half a Million Pilots Come to Oshkosh
- Eagle Point Park — New Deal on the Bluffs
- Edgerton: Tobacco City USA
- Elkhart Lake Road Race Circuits
- Ephraim: The Village That Walked Over the Ice
- Fort Blue Mounds: The Black Hawk War on the Wisconsin Prairie
- Halfway to the North Pole
- Hamlin Garland
- Hamlin Garland's Homestead
- Houdini Meets Edna Ferber
- Iowa County and the Lead Rush: America's First Mining Boom
- Iron Mountain and the World's Biggest Steam Pump
- Janesville, Wisconsin
- Johnson Creek, Wisconsin
- Jones Dairy Farm: The Sausage That Saved the Farm
- Kewaskum: The Chief Who Kept the Peace
- Kingsford: Henry Ford's Charcoal Town
- La Crosse Station: The Milwaukee Road Depot
- Lake Mills, Wisconsin
- Little Bohemia: Dillinger's Last Wisconsin Night
- Little Norway: A Norwegian Farm in the Wisconsin Hills
- Mauston, Wisconsin
- Mazomanie, Wisconsin
- Menomonie and the Lumber Empire
- Minnie Cochems, Lighthouse Keeper
- Minocqua: The Island Town That Remade Itself
- Mosinee: Little Bull Falls and the Birth of Wisconsin Paper
- New Lisbon, Wisconsin
- Norskedalen — The Norwegian Valley
- Oconomowoc: Newport of the West
- Odanah, Bad River Nation
- Ojibwe Ricing and the Glade Top of Chequamegon
- Onalaska: The Misplaced Utopia
- Oostburg, Wisconsin
- Osseo, Wisconsin
- Peshtigo: The Fire America Forgot
- Plainfield, Wisconsin: The Town That Inspired a Genre
- Plover: Portage County's First Seat of Government
- Potosi — Lead, Beer, and the Oldest Road in Wisconsin
- Prairie du Chien: Where the Rivers Converge
- Pritzker Military Museum and Library
- Saint Rose of Viterbo Convent — One Hundred Forty-One Years of Unbroken Prayer
- Saukville, Wisconsin
- Shopiere: Connecticut Yankees and a Limestone Church
- Sparta: Bicycle Capital of America
- Stevens Point: The Logger's Supply Stop That Became a University Town
- Sturgeon Bay: Built on Propellers
- Taliesin: The Fire, the Murders, and the Man Who Rebuilt
- Telehenge: Ruins of Telemark Lodge
- The Ardis Furnace
- The Cherry Capital: Door County's Orchards
- The Edmund Fitzgerald, Twenty-Nine Men and Twenty-Nine Minutes from Shelter
- The Lincoln-Tallman House: Where Lincoln Slept
- The Mabel Tainter Memorial
- The Old Rock Church of Hazel Green
- The Paine Art Center: A Tudor Mansion the Depression Left Unfinished
- The Panther Intaglio at Fort Atkinson
- The Potawatomi: Keepers of the Fire on the Peninsula
- The Walleye Wars in Chequamegon: Spearfishing, Boat Ramps, and the 1842 Treaty
- Tomah, Wisconsin
- Tomahawk: Dam, Railroad, and the Paper That Followed the Pine
- Trempealeau — Thirteen Thousand Years on the Bluffs
- Tunnel City, Wisconsin
- UW Oshkosh: The Normal School That Taught Wisconsin to Teach
- UW-Eau Claire: The Normal School on the Chippewa
- UW-Stevens Point: Where Conservation Went to College
- UW, Eau Claire: Blugolds on the Chippewa
- Villa Louis: Fur Trade Fortune on the Mississippi
- Wausau: Big Bull Falls and the Insurance That Came After the Logs
- West Denmark Seminary
- West Salem, Wisconsin
- What Was Here Before: Kohler, Wisconsin
- Winnebago County: Where the Fox River Met the Fur Trade
- Winneconne: Place of Skulls on the Wolf River
- Wyalusing: The Bluffs Where Marquette First Saw the Mississippi
- Yorkville Number Four School