A monument to the art of slicing people open.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.

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

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

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

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

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

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

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

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

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

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

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

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

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

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.