Baraboo, 13 miles to the south of Wisconsin Dells, attracts visitors with Circus World Museum. The city was the hometown of the Ringling Brothers. Their famous circus wintered there at the turn of the century. Baraboo is also the home of the International Crane Foundation which protects and displays a mating pair of each of the world's fifteen crane species. Just outside Baraboo, Devil's Lake State Park is a geologic gem. Created by the glaciers, the park's spring-fed lake is surrounded on three sides by 500-foot-high bluffs. Nearby, in North Freedom, the Mid-Continent Railway Museum offers 45-minute rides aboard an old-fashioned train.