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

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

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

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

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.

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

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

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

Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

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

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

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

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

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.