The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

This metal shop's yard is filled with cutout art including an Eiffel Tower replica and Noah's Arch.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.

Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

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

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

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

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.