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

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

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

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

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

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

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

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

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

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

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