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Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

This Ohio cemetery is home to the remains of many Confederate officers and soldiers who were once held nearby as prisoners of war.

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

What was one of the largest hotels in the country burned to the ground in a tragic fire.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

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

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

This state-of-the-art planetarium takes architectural inspiration from the sun itself.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

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

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

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

An easy-to-reach, century-old shipwreck in shallow and crystal clear waters.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.