The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

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

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

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

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

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

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

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

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

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.