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

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

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

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

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

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.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.