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

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

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

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

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

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

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

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

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

This small, nautical gift shop is home to a 500-pound behemoth.

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

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.