Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

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

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

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

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

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

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

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

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

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

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

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

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