This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

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

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

The longest structure of its kind ever built in Michigan.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

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

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

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

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

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

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.