The artwork honors those who are dedicated to preserving the beautiful Michigan peninsula.

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

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

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

The structure has welcomed visitors to this scenic harbor city on Lake Michigan for many decades.

This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.

This former county courthouse was originally an opulent hotel and entertainment venue.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

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

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

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

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

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