In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

This 19th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

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

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

World's largest Christmas store.

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

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

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

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

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

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