This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The birthplace of professional hockey on the shores of Portage Lake.

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