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.

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

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

These statues pay homage to the "green corridor" of parks and wetlands.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

The final resting place of a legendary science fiction author and his fraternal twin sister who died as an infant.

For one month, the fields and skies of Gibbon, Nebraska, come alive with one of the largest gatherings of sandhill cranes in North America.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

Step back in time while shopping inside this local store.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

The saddest little diner in New York.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.