Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

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

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

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

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

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

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

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

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

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

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

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

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

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.