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

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

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

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

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

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.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.