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

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

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

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

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

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

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

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

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

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

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

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

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

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