What was once the largest NFL stadium.

A tragedy and memorial that raised awareness about the dangers of unsealed mineshafts.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

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

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

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

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

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

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

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