Places elfandhobbit Wants to Go

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

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

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

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

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

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

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

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

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.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

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

This small, nautical gift shop is home to a 500-pound behemoth.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

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

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

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.