Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

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

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

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

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

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

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

This statue is a commemoration of the only place where Freud spoke in the United States.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.