You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

This 19th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

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

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

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

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

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

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

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.