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

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

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

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

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

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

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

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

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