The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”

This state-of-the-art planetarium takes architectural inspiration from the sun itself.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

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

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

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

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.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

World's largest Christmas store.

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

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

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

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

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

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

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

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.