"The museum was started in 1986 by Mark Sonday of Antioch IL. Mr. Sonday has traveled the world over locating rare and unusual vehicles including a Ch-54 Skycranes and a C-130 Hercules, the centerpieces of the museum's display.
Other vehicles located at the museum are a WWI French howitzer, a WWII Higgins Boat, multiple M-4 Sherman tanks, M-48 bridge Layer, a M-41 Walker Bulldog tank, several Vietnam era River patrol boat including one in the water in operation condition on the Chain' O Lakes in Northern IL, multiple Huey helicopters, 2 HH-3 heavy lift helicopters, and an experimental hovercraft among others."
- section from Official Site

UPDATE:  As of August 2006, the museum has closed at this location and will reopen at some point in Russell, Illinois.

  (on west side of HIGHWAY I-94 at Exit Highway 165)
11114 120th Ave.
Pleasant Prairie, WI  53159
(262) 857-3418

hours:
(Wed - Sat)  9am – 5pm
(Sundays)  10am – 5pm

 Mars is a large tourist-baiting, castle-themed (inside & out) cheese & gift store with its own cocktail lounge.

UPDATE:  The cheese-themed art gallery is no more.

  2800 120th Ave.
Kenosha, WI  53144
(800) 655-6147

hours:
(Mon - Sun)  9am – 7pm

  in front of Brass Ball Mobil & Burger King on the northwest corner of intersection of Highway 50 & Highway 83 near Salem

  25406 75th Street
Salem, WI  53168
(262) 843-2660

  5614 6th Ave.
 Kenosha, WI  53140
(262) 652-0648

hours:
(Mon & Wed-Fri)  11am – 5:30pm
(Saturdays)  10am – 3pm   /   (Sundays)  11am – 2pm

  was at: 7930 Sheridan Road
Kenosha, WI  53143  
(800) 876-SING

Also listed in the Paranormal section below.

  location unknown

Kemper Hall

The phantom of a decapitated nun is still around, as are other reported spirits.

Also listed in the History section below.

Catfishers See Bright Lights  (1999)

"...I noticed four bright white lights flying erratically (not in a strait line, kind of up down left right) we had dark clouds as a backdrop so they seemed really bright."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Crop Circles in 1993

Pleasant Prairie UFO Sightings

"The dad parked the car and ran into the barn to check the animals...the object left and there was a dead circle directly beneath where the saucer was hovering years later. The father had nightmares for years and years that he wouldn't talk about after this happened."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 11-25-86 report

Haunted Cemeteries of Kenosha County

Several cemeteries in the Kenosha area are reportedly haunted.  The Paranormal Investigators of Kenosha have chronicled visits to many of these on their website (see link at right).

Rhode Opera House

Paranormal activity is reported in the old theatre.

Kenosha UFO Sightings

"i kept looking up towards my roof when a large black rectangular object floated slowly above me about 5 to 600 hundred feet up. it had no wings was very noisey (sic) and no lights except for 2 tubular lights on the bottom which were not bright at all."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 08-06-04 report

"Bristol Triangle"  (1986)

Octagonal Object Observed  (2005)

"This thing was not the glowing ball or anything you see with the other pictures.  This thing was massive.  It had 5 or so different lights.  It wasn't a circle, nor a triangle.  More of a stop sign looking figure to it."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Paddock Lake UFO Sightings

"I slowed my cycle and pulled almost directly under the object, which was still hovering but making no sound that I could hear over my cycle's noise. As I stopped beneath I would est. it to be the size of a hockey puck at arms length."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 07-15-99 report

Richard I. Bong State State Recreation Area

Also listed in the Attractions section above.

Saucer-shaped Craft Seen Near I-94  (2003)

"But I noticed that in addition to it being circular and flat, that it also seemed to be spinning (but slowly)."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Simmons Public Library

Tales of unexplainable events that have occurred at the Simmons Library are told in the book "Strange Wisconsin", along with a bizarre urban legend that may give one pause when entering the building.

"The Powers Lake Monster"

In the book "Strange Wisconsin" is a report of a large canine-like creature spotted standing on its hind legs along the same stretch of road in the wee hours of the morning back in 2006.

"Ghosts of America" Haunted Location Reports
(take with a grain of salt)

The reports on this site are presumably fiction, using random Wisconsin place names in the stories listed there.  Even so, you might get a kick out of reading them.

"Twin Lakes Rental"

A story in the book "Milwaukee Ghosts" tells of nuisance ghosts that dwell in two rentable homes.

Kenosha's yet-to-open Civil War Museum is reported to be the country's largest collection of exhibits devoted to our nation's war between the states.

The Frank A. Palumbo Civil War Museum at Carthage College has closed permanently.

  5400 First Ave. (next to Kenosha Public Library)
Kenosha, WI  53140
(262) 653-4140

hours:
(Sun & Mon)  Noon – 5pm   /   (Tues - Sat)  9am – 5pm
Closed holidays

"...the Kenosha County Historical Museum's seventeen exhibit galleries display life in the Kenosha area from the pioneering 1800's to the early twentieth century, including a full-size diorama of a Potowatomi Indian camping beside his birch bark canoe on the shore of Pike Creek in 1800; a nineteenth century country store and apothecary shop; the typewriter invented by Latham Sholes, an early Kenosha resident; children's toys, dolls and an early rocking horse; a one-room schoolhouse; a fully furnished one-room frontier home; and more."
- section from the Explore Wisconsin website

  220 51st Place
Kenosha, WI  53140
(262) 654-5770

hours:
(Tues - Fri)  10am – 4:30pm
(Saturdays)  10am – 4pm  /  (Sundays)    Noon – 4pm
Closed Mondays & Holidays

"Tour two majestic sentinels of the lake located within easy walking distance of one another: the cream-colored brick constructed 1866 Southport Lighthouse on Simmons Island, and the bright red, ironclad Pierhead Lighthouse at the end of the Simmons Island pier. In days gone by they offered welcome beacons of safety to storm-tossed sailors; today, both stand as reminders of their faithful tenders and the courageous inland seafarers saved by their lights."
- section from Explore Wisconsin Site

  1866 Southport Light Station  (55 feet tall)
Simmons Island Park
50th Street and Lighthouse Drive (4th Avenue)
(262) 654-5770 & (262) 654-7307

From Highway I-94, head east on Highway 158 (52nd Street) for about 7 miles.  Turn left on 6th Avenue, then turn right on 50th Street.  Cross over the bridge onto Simmons Island.  Turn right after crossing the bridge.  Southport Lighthouse is on your left.

  1906 Pierhead Lighthouse  (50 feet tall)
Simmons Island Public Beach
50th Street and Lake Michigan
(262) 654-7307

From Highway I-94, head east on Highway 158 (52nd Street) for about 7 miles.  Turn left on 6th Avenue, then turn right on 50th Street.  Cross over the bridge onto Simmons Island.  Turn right after crossing the bridge.  Continue on towards the pier.  Pierhead Lighthouse is at the end of the northern pier.

"17.5 acre Kenosha County Park on Lake Michigan. Includes simple Prairie Chapel, restored Victorian Mansion, St. Mary’s Convent, Kemper Hall Campus, Anderson Arts Center and renovated Conference Center."
- section from Kenosha Area Convention & Visitor Bureau website

  Kemper Center
6501 Third Ave.
Kenosha, WI  53143
(262) 657-6005

hours:
Tours by appointment.

Also listed in the Paranormal section above.