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

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

The remains of a failed canal can be found in several towns near Lake St. Clair and is known historically as "Mason's Folly."

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

This life-sized effigy commemorates the dedicated abolitionist and social reformer.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

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

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

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

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

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

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

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 remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.