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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

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

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

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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