Nestled in a moonlit glade, the Forevertron begins to energize. Inside a copper-strapped glass orb atop the contraption is Dr. Evermor, who will soon be propelled through the heavens on a magnetic lightning force beam. The good Doctor's mission: to liberate himself from the detriments of this world and explore the trans-temporal beyond.

Fantastic as it may seem, both Dr. Evermore and his amazing Forevertron are actually quite real, and can seen by anyone visiting Dr. Evermor’s Sculpture Park in Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin. The Forevertron is the world's largest scrap metal sculpture, reaching 50 feet high, 120 feet wide, and weighing some 300 tons. A fusion of lost machinery embodies the structure, including Thomas Edison's late 19th-century bipolar dynamos, an early x-ray machine, and a decontamination chamber from the Apollo space mission. To one side of the Forevertron stands a telescope for visitors to watch his departure, and to the other side an observation platform is reserved for the royal family.

Dr. Evermor was born Tom Every, who ran a successful industrial demolition business for many years. But in 1983, at age 45, he decided to stop wrecking and start building with the ‘junk’ he often collected. Every gave his business to his son and renamed himself Dr. Evermor. Then he began to build the device of half machine, half dream, that would someday propel him to folk art fame, if not the stars.

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