A preserved stump is all that remains of the once-mighty hardwood.

The artwork honors those who are dedicated to preserving the beautiful Michigan peninsula.

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

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

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

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

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

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.