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The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

Blending modern art with Baroque architecture, this wondrous mosaic grotto serves as the late artist's final creation.

The gambling entrepreneur who built a city was also an avid collector of classic cars.

A grueling 699-step stairway to a heavenly view of the island of Saint Helena.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

Admire an ever-changing landscape of stone sculptures.

This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

This stone tower was built to protect Crete from incoming pirates.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

A small welcome symbol for visitors to Ann Arbor.

This museum was once the home of industry titan Matilda Dodge Wilson.

At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.