Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

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

The artwork honors those who are dedicated to preserving the beautiful Michigan peninsula.

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

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

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

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

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

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

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

This unique collection collects pieces of art etched into thin pieces of stone.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

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

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.