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The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is the Great Lakes' most famous shipwreck. There are 9,000+ more; here's where to find them and how to explore the remains.

While many Michigan residents were busy stocking up at the grocery store and preparing to hunker down for a pending storm, a brave few suited up and grabbed their surf boards to hit the frigid waters of Lake Michigan.

The two walked out onto the pier a little before midnight. Both were swept off the pier by a high wave and into the near freezing water.

It turns out there was once a plan to build a canal linking the Clinton River on the east side, with the Kalamazoo River. This would have ultimately linked Lake Michigan with Lake St. Clair.

Surf was definitely UP!

Something called a "mid-latitude cyclone" swept through Michigan over the weekend. Up to ten foot waves were recorded along West Michigan's Lakeshore. Here's video of the big waves on the big lake Sunday afternoon.

It took 42 days to make it around the entire lake, and communities along the journey surprised Travis by joining in on the cause!

Michiganders and people vacationing from other states will have a unique opportunity to take a new 275 trail from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron.

Pirates sailed the Great Lakes for a few hundred years, smuggling and bootlegging. Are there any pirate treasures at the bottom of any of our Great Lakes? CLICK IN for some details on the pirates that once roamed Michigan waters!

Check out this spooky and mesmerizing footage captured in South Haven during the overnight hours of Wednesday August, 7th to Thursday August, 8th.