Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

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

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

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

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

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

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

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

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

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

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.