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

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

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

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

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

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

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

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

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

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

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.