The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

Although outnumbered, the Tecumseh Confederacy defeated a large regiment of United States troops.

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

These statues pay homage to the "green corridor" of parks and wetlands.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

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

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

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

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

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