Places Auntie Maim Wants to Go

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

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

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

This marker tells the story of a town’s toxic past.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.