A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Five restored historic road bridges in a park along the Kalamazoo River.

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

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

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This tree was warped centuries ago to serve as a botanical wayfaring tool.

A humble ode to the heroic air rescue efforts of the United States Coast Guard serving on the Great Lakes.

This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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