Places debba62 Wants to Go

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

Stop by this fifth-generation fish market and smokehouse for the catch of the day.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

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

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

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

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

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

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

This tree was warped centuries ago to serve as a botanical wayfaring tool.

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

Ernest Hemingway used to frequent this general store, which appears in several of his short stories.

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

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.