Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

World's largest Christmas store.

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

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

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

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

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

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

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

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

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.