A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

This monument honors the band's impromptu performance at Cadillac highschool's homecoming decades ago.

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

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

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

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

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

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.