A tribute to Rhode Island's state bird, a domesticated chicken breed that dominated the 19th-century poultry industry.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

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

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

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

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

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

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

A small mountain made entirely of banded iron stone overlooking downtown Ishpeming.

This replica of Michigan's mighty Mackinac Bridge is more than 200 times smaller than its northern counterpart.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.