Places aerynriver Wants to Go

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Once the home of a local newspaper, this small museum preserves the history of Beaver Island, from its Indigenous inhabitants to the arrival of a self-proclaimed king.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

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

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

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

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

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