Places biancac Wants to Go

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

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

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

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.

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

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

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

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

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

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

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

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.