Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

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

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.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

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

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

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

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

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

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

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

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

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