Bryson City, North Carolina
Kuwohi
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
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Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Sonoma, California
The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.
Fort Collins, Colorado
This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.
Fort Collins, Colorado
Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Only six people can sit inside this delightfully quaint sanctuary.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.
Pontiac, Michigan
What was once the largest NFL stadium.
Detroit, Michigan
The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.
Paradise, Michigan
These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.
Rochester, Michigan
This museum was once the home of industry titan Matilda Dodge Wilson.
Detroit, Michigan
Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.
Au Gres, Michigan
The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.
Lansing, Michigan
Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.
Dearborn, Michigan
One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.
Indian River, Michigan
One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.
East Lansing, Michigan
The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Detroit, Michigan
Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.
Frankenmuth, Michigan
World's largest Christmas store.
Paradise, Michigan
This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.