Once the home of a local newspaper, this small museum preserves the history of Beaver Island, from its Indigenous inhabitants to the arrival of a self-proclaimed king.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

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

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

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

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

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

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

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

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

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

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

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

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

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

At 431 feet and 10 inches, this is the longest historic covered bridge in the United States.

A herd of roughly 250 American bison roam these plains.