Detroit, Michigan
Beth Olem
This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.
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Detroit, Michigan
This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.
Detroit, Michigan
The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Detroit, Michigan
Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.
Detroit, Michigan
This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.
Detroit, Michigan
Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.
Detroit, Michigan
An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.
Port Austin, Michigan
Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.
Detroit, Michigan
Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.
Detroit, Michigan
A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.
Sadorus, Illinois
An amazing collection of scale model ships.
Lincoln, Illinois
The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
Monticello, Illinois
The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.
Cass City, Michigan
Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.
Waterloo, Iowa
This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.
Pontiac, Michigan
What was once the largest NFL stadium.
Burlington, Iowa
While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.
Carp Lake, Michigan
During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.
Alexandria, Indiana
Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.
Crystal Falls, Michigan
Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.
Manistique, Michigan
This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.