Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A place for ship-lovers to watch the passage of freighters traversing the Great Lakes while learning about their history.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.

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

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

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

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

World's largest Christmas store.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.