There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

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

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

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

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

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

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

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

An amazing example of early-20th-century architecture, this church features marble transported from Utah.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.