Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

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

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

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

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

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

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.