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

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

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

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

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

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

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

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

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

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

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.