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World's largest Christmas store.

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

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

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

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

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

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

This campus monument honors Katherine Johnson, who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first human spaceflight and safely land Apollo 11 on the moon.

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.