Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

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

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

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

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

In this quiet park a rendition of a classic painting graces the outside of a charming restroom.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

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

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

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

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

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

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

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

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.