For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A place for ship-lovers to watch the passage of freighters traversing the Great Lakes while learning about their history.

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

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

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

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

Once a home for cows and hay, this barn has been transformed into an event cathedral.

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

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.