Places Gabei Wants to Go

In Chicago, an empty relic of a time when neighborhood zoos were more common.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

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

James E. Grosjean's Noah's Ark "spectacular display" is a primitive version of animatronics built in 1901 -- showing the biblical story in a moving diorama of animals and choreographed lights.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

A World War II–era submarine museum where visitors can spend the night aboard.

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

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

The Fun Farm weaves fairy tales, myths, and magic into a magnificent collection for visitors to explore.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

Michigan's oldest operating hotel predates the state itself.

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

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.