This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

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

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

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

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

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

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

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

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.