A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

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

A humble ode to the heroic air rescue efforts of the United States Coast Guard serving on the Great Lakes.

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.