The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

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

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

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

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

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

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

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

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

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

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