This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

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

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

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

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

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

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

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

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

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

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.