Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

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

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

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

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

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

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

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

World's largest Christmas store.