Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

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

This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.

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

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

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

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

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

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

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

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

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

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

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Amid rushing rapids, this small bit of land is an important First Nations site on border between Canada and the United States.

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

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

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

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