This museum of Viking vessels allows visitors to take a replica out for a spin.

World's largest pet casket company brings in up to $5 million per year in revenue.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

A memorial to the Potawatomi chief who allegedly ran nearly 150 miles to alert settlers of an impending attack.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

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

This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

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

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

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

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

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

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

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.