As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

Waterfalls, rapids, and top-notch swimming spots await in this densely forested corner of the Smokies.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This symbol of the town's Swiss heritage is a tribute to the Zytglogge in Bern.

An abandoned generator and motor factory has become a multi-use industrial campus.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.

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

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

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.

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

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

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

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

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