Traverse City, Michigan
Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park Fairy Trail
This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.
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Traverse City, Michigan
This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.
Traverse City, Michigan
It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.
Traverse City, Michigan
A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.
Traverse City, Michigan
Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.
Traverse City, Michigan
This tiny island bears the name of Civil War veteran, fisherman, and local celebrity Richard Bassett.
Glen Arbor Township, Michigan
This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.
Traverse City, Michigan
This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.
Suttons Bay, Michigan
Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?
Leland, Michigan
The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.
Cross Village, Michigan
Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.
Beaver Island, Michigan
On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.
Naubinway, Michigan
More than 150 snowmobiles fill this Michigan museum.
Brimley, Michigan
This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.
Marquette, Michigan
Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.
Eagle Harbor, Michigan
On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.
Calumet Township, Michigan
A tragedy and memorial that raised awareness about the dangers of unsealed mineshafts.
Calumet, Michigan
Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.
Mohawk, Michigan
One of the few Cold War-era bases with many of its original structures still standing.
Copper Harbor, Michigan
The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.
Crystal Falls, Michigan
Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.
Plainfield, Wisconsin
Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.
Rudolph, Wisconsin
Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.
Iola, Wisconsin
This rural park in central Wisconsin honors one of the world’s most prominent numismatists.
Clintonville, Wisconsin
A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."