Places kuukisu Wants to Go

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

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

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

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

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

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

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

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

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

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

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

An unusual sculpture, an interesting history, in a strange place, for a good cause.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

Literal "money laundering."

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.