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

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

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

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

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

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

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

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

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

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

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

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

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

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

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

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

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

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

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.