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

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

This small, nautical gift shop is home to a 500-pound behemoth.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

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

World's largest pet casket company brings in up to $5 million per year in revenue.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

The remnants of this Douglas fir predate Columbus's arrival in North America.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

Dozens of large steel sculptures fill this two-acre park outside a former blacksmith's studio.

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

A collection of sculptures that explore what's at stake when nature is thrown out of balance.