Places Heidi Moneta Wants to Go

This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.

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

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

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

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

The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.

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

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

The longest structure of its kind ever built in Michigan.

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

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

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

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.

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

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

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

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

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

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.