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

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

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

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

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

This bridge was constructed from the remains of the first Ferris wheel.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

A herd of roughly 250 American bison roam these plains.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

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

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

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