The Living History Museum of Camping in Phelps, Wisconsin

In Wisconsin's Northwoods, nobody ever went "to the cabin" — they went to the camp , whether that meant a canvas tent, a camper, or the family cottage on the lake. A resort on North Twin Lake has turned that whole tradition into America's first living history museum of camping — a museum where the exhibits have beds, and guests are encouraged to sleep in them. The collection spans a century, one decade per unit: two Prohibition-era luxury tents named for Al Capone and John Dillinger, who genuinely vacationed (and hid) in these woods — Dillinger's famous FBI shootout happened one lake chain ove

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