This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

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

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

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

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

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

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

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

A preserved stump is all that remains of the once-mighty hardwood.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.