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

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

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

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

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.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

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

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

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

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

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.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.