These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

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

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

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

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

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

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

A memorial to a 19th-century fishing disaster that had deep repercussions across Shetland.

Recreations of a Norse longhouse and boat on Shetland's northernmost inhabited island.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

Located more than 600 feet beneath sea level, this tunnel boasts the world's first undersea roundabout.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.