Places ashleymlawrence Wants to Go

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

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

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

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

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

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

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

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

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

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