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

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

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

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

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