Locals often dress this effigy of Traverse City's founder in festive outfits.

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

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

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

This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

Once a home for cows and hay, this barn has been transformed into an event cathedral.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

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

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

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

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.