Places hellogigi Wants to Go

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

World's largest pet casket company brings in up to $5 million per year in revenue.

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

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

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

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

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

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

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

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

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

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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