This tree was warped centuries ago to serve as a botanical wayfaring tool.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

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

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.