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

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

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

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

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The birthplace of professional hockey on the shores of Portage Lake.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.