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

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

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

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

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

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

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

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

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

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

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

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

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

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

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

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

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