Places brennonhightower Wants to Go

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

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

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

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

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

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

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

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

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

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

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

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

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

A journey along this trail means indulging in a slice of nostalgia.