A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

World's largest Christmas store.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

In this quiet park a rendition of a classic painting graces the outside of a charming restroom.

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

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

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

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

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

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

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

Visitors to the National Museum of Nepal can moon over a set of well-traveled flags.

This conservation area filled with colorful birds is the last community forest within the city of Kathmandu.