This is not your typical jungle gym.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

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

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district

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

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

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.