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Looking into the tunnel from the gift shop.

Traverse City, Michigan

Botanical Garden Visitor's Center Gift Shop Tunnel

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

Hippie Tree

Traverse City, Michigan

The Hippie Tree

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

State Hospital Memorial Marker For Traverse Colantha Walker.

Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse Colantha Walker's Grave

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

Interior of Cathedral Barn during a recent event.

Traverse City, Michigan

Cathedral Barn at Historic Barns Park

Once a home for cows and hay, this barn has been transformed into an event cathedral.

Traverse City State Hospital

Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City State Hospital

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

The air terminal building.

Northport, Michigan

Woolsey Memorial Airport

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

Archduke Stefan's grave in St. Wenceslaus Cemetery.

Suttons Bay, Michigan

The Archduke of Austria's Michigan Grave

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

View of the cottonwood tree stump.

Leland, Michigan

Leland Champion Cottonwood Tree

A preserved stump is all that remains of the once-mighty hardwood.

Fishtown.

Leland, Michigan

Leland's Historic Fishtown

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

Leelanau Preservers Tile Wall.

Leland, Michigan

Leelanau Preservers Tile Wall

The artwork honors those who are dedicated to preserving the beautiful Michigan peninsula.

You'll find these sort of artifacts sprinkled all over the site.
Permanently Closed

Cedar, Michigan

Sugar Loaf Ski Lodge

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

The steeple from the cemetery.

Cedar, Michigan

Holy Rosary Catholic Church

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

Diver exploring the shipwreck in Lake Michigan

Maple City, Michigan

The Rising Sun Shipwreck

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

The Bottle House

Kaleva, Michigan

The Bottle House

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

S.S. City of Milwaukee.

Manistee, Michigan

S.S. City of Milwaukee

The restored ferry is now a dockside museum and a unique bed and breakfast.

Trail marker #33 at West End Beach in Traverse City.

Cadillac, Michigan

Old Indian Trail

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

Cadillac's KISS Monument

Cadillac, Michigan

Cadillac's KISS Monument

This monument honors the band's impromptu performance at Cadillac highschool's homecoming decades ago.

Shrine of the Pines

Baldwin, Michigan

Shrine of the Pines

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

World's Largest Brown Trout Sculpture.

Baldwin, Michigan

World’s Largest Brown Trout Sculpture

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

Idlewild circa 1955.

Idlewild, Michigan

Idlewild

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

The Clam sitting upon its pedestal.

Cheboygan, Michigan

The Man-Killing Clam

This small, nautical gift shop is home to a 500-pound behemoth.

Fantasy Forest in Leila Arboretum

Battle Creek, Michigan

Fantasy Forest in Leila Arboretum

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

'A. Lincoln'

Battle Creek, Michigan

'A. Lincoln'

A massive portrait of Abraham Lincoln created with approximately 24,500 pennies.

The Former Battle Creek Sanitarium

Battle Creek, Michigan

The Former Battle Creek Sanitarium

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

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