Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

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

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

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

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

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

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.