A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

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

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

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

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

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

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

A Michigan farm has hosted the fierce competition since 1974.

A horse-drawn 1858 steam pumper fire engine encased in glass on the front lawn of a Michigan insurance company.

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.

This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

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.

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