On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

The birthplace of professional hockey on the shores of Portage Lake.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

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

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

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

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

World's largest Christmas store.

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

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

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

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

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

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

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

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

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

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

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

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

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.