Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

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

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

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

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

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

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

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

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

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

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

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.