Blue Earth, Minnesota
Jolly Green Giant Statue
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
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Blue Earth, Minnesota
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.
Menahga, Minnesota
Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.
Saginaw, Michigan
Soaring mural splashed across 70-year-old silos in Michigan.
Port Austin, Michigan
Artist Scott Hocking took a dilapidated 1890s barn to create his massive "Barnboat."
Grand Rapids, Michigan
The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.
South Lyon, Michigan
This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.
South Lyon, Michigan
This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.
Onaway, Michigan
A 30-foot-tall sculpture pays homage to what was once the Steering Wheel Capital of the World.
Grayling, Michigan
This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.
Springfield, Ohio
A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.
Sidney, Ohio
The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.
Durand, Michigan
This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.
Flint, Michigan
A bronze sculpture dedicated to a historic labor dispute in the U.S. automotive industry.
Fremont, Ohio
After a battle with Congress, Webb C. Hayes installed the gates of the White House on the fence of his father's Presidential Library and Museum.
Bath Township, Michigan
A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.
St. Louis, Michigan
This marker tells the story of a town’s toxic past.
St. Louis, Michigan
This replica of Michigan's mighty Mackinac Bridge is more than 200 times smaller than its northern counterpart.
Columbus, Ohio
A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.
Durand, Michigan
A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.
Pontiac, Michigan
What was once the largest NFL stadium.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.
Suffolk, Virginia
An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.