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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

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

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

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

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

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