This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.