A horse-drawn 1858 steam pumper fire engine encased in glass on the front lawn of a Michigan insurance company.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

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.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.