Locals often dress this effigy of Traverse City's founder in festive outfits.

This tree was warped centuries ago to serve as a botanical wayfaring tool.

The "birthplace of insulin," where Sir Frederick Banting realized the hormone could save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.

In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

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

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

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

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

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