Places Gabei Wants to Go

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

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

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

A model of what was supposed to be Domino's Pizza's colossal, Wrightian headquarters

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

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

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

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

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

These five houses were built for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Enjoy a brandy old fashioned with this petrified pet in a bar devoted to the local press.