This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

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

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

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

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

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

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

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.