A horse-drawn 1858 steam pumper fire engine encased in glass on the front lawn of a Michigan insurance company.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

This life-sized effigy commemorates the dedicated abolitionist and social reformer.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

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

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

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.

World's largest Christmas store.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

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

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

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

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.

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