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Roadside Distraction: a Closer Look at Wisconsin Cheese Kitsch

A drive through Wisconsin is marked by eye-catching pieces of American “cheese.”

Photography by Becca Dilley

Cheese head bull at Heckel’s Family Restaurant, Chippewa Falls, WI
Mouse and cheese, Black River Crossing, WI
Mouse climbing the cheese sign at Ehlenbach’s Cheese Chalet, DeForest, WI
Antoinette, Plymouth, WI
Chatty Belle, the world’s largest talking cow, Neillsville, WI
Giant mouse with sausage and cheese, Mauston, WI
Cowboy mouse, Oakdale, WI
Jim’s Cheese Pantry, Waterloo, WI
Cheese head bull at Heckel’s Family Restaurant, Chippewa Falls, WI
Mouse House Cheesehaus, Windsor, WI
FAST Fiberglass mold graveyard, Sparta, WI
Giant cow, Ehlenbach’s Cheese Chalet, DeForest, WI
Mars Cheese Castle, Kenosha, WI
Wisconsin souvenir snowglobes
Mouse House Cheesehaus, Windsor, WI
Billboard, Clark County, WI
Souvenir cheeses in a variety of fun shapes are available all over Wisconsin
Who doesn’t need a cheese wedge necklace?!
Kick back and feel like a big cheese with a long soak in a repurposed cheese vat tub in one of the theme rooms at the Don Q Inn