Places eapya Wants to Go

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

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

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

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

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

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

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.