Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

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

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

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

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.

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

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Walk up a ramp through a forest for panoramic views of Lake Michigan.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.