Portis, Kansas
Porky Pig Memorial
A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.
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Portis, Kansas
A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.
Cawker City, Kansas
Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.
Cawker City, Kansas
It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.
Big Rapids, Michigan
A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.
Detroit, Michigan
These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.
Detroit, Michigan
Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.
South Lyon, Michigan
This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.
Ishpeming, Michigan
A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.
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.
Detroit, Michigan
Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.
Wyoming, Michigan
These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.
Midland, Michigan
There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.
Cedar Lake, Michigan
There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.
Dearborn, Michigan
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
Detroit, Michigan
Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.
Traverse City, Michigan
Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.
Mackinac County, Michigan
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
Paradise, Michigan
This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.
Detroit, Michigan
Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.
Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.
Detroit, Michigan
An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.