World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

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

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

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

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.