This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

A 12-foot sculpture serves as a constant reminder of the importance of protecting and restoring the Boardman River.   

A humble ode to the heroic air rescue efforts of the United States Coast Guard serving on the Great Lakes.

Locals often dress this effigy of Traverse City's founder in festive outfits.

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

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.

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

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

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

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

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

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

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

What was once the largest NFL stadium.