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

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

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

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

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

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

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

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

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

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

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

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

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

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

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

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