This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

A humble ode to the heroic air rescue efforts of the United States Coast Guard serving on the Great Lakes.

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

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

World's largest Christmas store.

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

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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