The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

This life-sized effigy commemorates the dedicated abolitionist and social reformer.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

The remains of a failed canal can be found in several towns near Lake St. Clair and is known historically as "Mason's Folly."

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.