Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

Although outnumbered, the Tecumseh Confederacy defeated a large regiment of United States troops.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

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

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

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

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

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

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

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

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

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

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