Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.

The remains of a failed canal can be found in several towns near Lake St. Clair and is known historically as "Mason's Folly."

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

Comprised of thousands of cave temple carvings this cornucopia of ancient Chinese stone art is unrivaled anywhere in the world.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.