An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

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

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

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.