Places everywhereemily Wants to Go

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

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

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

Check out the Heidelberg printing presses in the workshop of an artist known for documenting the natural world on greeting cards.

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

Swing by this brightly painted former cannery on the water for a crash-course in local boating history.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

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

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

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 vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

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

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Once a home for cows and hay, this barn has been transformed into an event cathedral.

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

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

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

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

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."