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

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

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

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

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

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

Once a home for cows and hay, this barn has been transformed into an event cathedral.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Locals often dress this effigy of Traverse City's founder in festive outfits.

A 12-foot sculpture serves as a constant reminder of the importance of protecting and restoring the Boardman River.   

A humble ode to the heroic air rescue efforts of the United States Coast Guard serving on the Great Lakes.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

The structure has welcomed visitors to this scenic harbor city on Lake Michigan for many decades.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.