This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

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.

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

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

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

This was once the largest four-sided clock in the world (yes, even bigger than Big Ben).

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A historic 1929 art-house cinema that features independent, classic, cult, and foreign films in an atmospheric setting.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.