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.

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

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

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

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

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

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

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

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.