"The Most Boring Road in the State."

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

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

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

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

World's largest Christmas store.

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

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

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

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

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Make it an offering.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.