Places jorjeanna Wants to Go

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

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

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

The longest structure of its kind ever built in Michigan.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

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

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

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

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

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

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

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

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

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

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."