A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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.

These five houses were built for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.