The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

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

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.

The restored ferry is now a dockside museum and a unique bed and breakfast.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

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

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

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

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

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

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

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

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

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