This incredibly diverse research station is one of the largest tropical botanical gardens in the world.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Center filled with hands-on displays served as a tribute to several astronauts with connections to the state.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

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

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

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

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.