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Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Hidden among the trees at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center are more than 20 gnomes in small wooden houses.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

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

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

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.

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."