World Water Day: Amazing Facts and Pictures of the Great Lakes

One of the most scenic national parks in the United States, Pictured Rocks includes a trail spanning 42 miles of Lake Superior shoreline between Munising, Michigan and Grand Marais, Michigan. It includes various rock formations like natural archways, waterfalls, and sand dunes.

Isle Royale, a massive island surrounded by Lake Superior, contains several interior lakes. That's a lake within a lake, my friend. Lakeception?

Lake Erie is the warmest and most biologically productive of the Great Lakes, and the Lake Erie walleye fishery is widely considered the best in the world.

Lake Erie is named after the Erie tribe of Native Americans who lived along its southern shore.

Bayfield Main Beach of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada was voted a top-5 beach considering all Great Lake beaches.

Manitoulin Island, one of 30 thousand islands within Lake Huron, is the largest freshwater island in the world.

Visitor flock to this Western Michigan beach to catch the jaw-dropping sunsets and to see (and hear) the Grand Haven Musical Fountain, the largest musical fountain in the world.

With crystal clear waters and rolling dunes, Sleeping Bear Dunes was named "The Most Beautiful Place in America" in 2011 by Good Morning America.

Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes in surface area, and second smallest in depth. It’s the 14th largest lake on the planet.

Niagra Falls is an international border between the United States and Canada. 3,160 tons of water flows over Niagara Falls every second. Four of the five great lakes drain into the Niagra River via Niagra Falls.