Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

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

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

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

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

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

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

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

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

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

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.