This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

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

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

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

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

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

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.