Author Krista Finstad Hanson describes more than 140 of the Badger State's significant buildings, offering historical details and travel information for each.
Some buildings serve as art museums, others as living history museums.
The emphasis throughout, though, is on architecture and historical details. When appropriate, Hanson also mentions special events and celebrations at each specific site that are held during the year. She has discovered some rather unusual places, such as The Hideout, Al Capone's North Woods retreat in the Couderay-Hayward area, or Wingspread, the prairie house that Frank Lloyd Wright built in 1939 for Herbert F. Johnson and which now functions as an international conference center. Other historic homes described include The House on the Rock near Dodgeville, another Frank Lloyd Wright gem, Taliesin, near Spring Green and writer Hamlin Garland's Homestead in West Salem. Accompanied by many color photographs.