This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

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.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

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

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

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

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

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.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

Evidence from a brutal 1880s murder is on display at this former infirmary house.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.