This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

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

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

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

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

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

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

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

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