Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

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

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.