This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

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

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

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

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

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

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

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

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

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

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

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

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

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.

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

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

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

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.