Places Heidi Moneta Wants to Go

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

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

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

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

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

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

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

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

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

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

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

The restored ferry is now a dockside museum and a unique bed and breakfast.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.