There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

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

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

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

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

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

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

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

World's largest Christmas store.