Places strangersigh Wants to Go

This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.

A bronze sculpture dedicated to a historic labor dispute in the U.S. automotive industry.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

World's largest Christmas store.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

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

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

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

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

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

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

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

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

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

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

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

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

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Once the home of a local newspaper, this small museum preserves the history of Beaver Island, from its Indigenous inhabitants to the arrival of a self-proclaimed king.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.