Hickory Corners, Michigan
Gilmore Car Museum
Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.
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Hickory Corners, Michigan
Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.
Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.
Lansing, Michigan
Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.
Owosso, Michigan
Largely unknown designer of the Jefferson nickel, one of the most iconic coins in U.S. history.
New Baltimore, Michigan
A massive collection of vintage cars in an industrial-style building.
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
This historic mill has been turning apples into delicious fresh cider for over a century.
Highland Park, Michigan
Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.
Detroit, Michigan
The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.
Detroit, Michigan
Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Romulus, Michigan
Location of the deadliest plane crash in Michigan history
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.
Atlanta, Illinois
While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.
Chicago, Illinois
A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.
Chicago, Illinois
One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.
St. Ignace, Michigan
Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.
Paradise, Michigan
These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.
Newberry, Michigan
Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.
Manistique, Michigan
This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.
Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.
Kaukauna, Wisconsin
This animatronic Christmas village within an industrial park creates a whimsical juxtaposition.
Seymour, Wisconsin
A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.