This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

The restored ferry is now a dockside museum and a unique bed and breakfast.

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

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

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

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

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

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

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

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

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.