This park offers one of the easiest ways to paddle into a Chesapeake landscape that has looked much the same for centuries.

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

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This picturesque beacon was built to keep boats safe shortly after the Civil War.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

World's largest Christmas store.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

These statues pay homage to the "green corridor" of parks and wetlands.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.