The Grotto and Shrines erected in the village of Dickeyville, Wisconsin on Holy Ghost Parish grounds are the works of one Father Matthias Wernerus, a Catholic Priest, pastor of the Parish from 1918 to 1931. These include colored glass, gems, antique heirlooms of pottery or porcelain, stalagmites and stalactites, sea shells of all kinds, starfish, petrified sea urchins and fossils, and a variety of corals plus amber glass, agate, quartz, ores such as iron, copper and lead, fool's gold, rock crystals, onyx, amethyst, and coal.
Many items are antiques.
You will even find petrified wood and moss. And there are many of those round balls which used to be found on the top of a stick-shift in old cars. The priest never used blueprints but worked all the many designs out in his head. There are several shrines in the grotto garden. Besides the main shrine which houses the grotto of the Blessed Virgin, there is a patriotic shrine, the saramental shrine of the Holy Eucharist, the Sacred Heart shrine, Christ the King shrine, and the Stations of the Cross.