Lakes

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

At least seven hues of blue and turquoise make this freshwater lagoon unique.

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

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.