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

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

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

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

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

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

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

This outdoor exhibit features a historic wooden dam once used to help boats navigate the Ohio River.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

This mill on Lake Erie appears to shrink as a viewer approaches thanks to an optical illusion.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.