Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

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

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

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

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

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

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

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

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

A collection of miniature, symbolic sculptures hides in plain sight across Kyiv.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.