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."

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

This grave marks the final resting place of pioneer John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

One tree's homage to soles past and present.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

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

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

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

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

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

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

The longest structure of its kind ever built in Michigan.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.