Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

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.

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

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

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

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

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

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

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

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

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

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

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.