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Before the Vatican, there was Dolton: This is the childhood home of the first American pope.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

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

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

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

As Ernest Hemingway scribbled notes for stories, he left a lasting impression on this bar: a charred hole where he extinguished his cigars.

The renowned author spent 22 summers of his early life along the shore of Walloon Lake.

Stock up on superb sour cherry preserves made by hand in copper kettles.

Ernest Hemingway used to frequent this general store, which appears in several of his short stories.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

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.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

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

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

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

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.