Traverse City, Michigan
Traverse City State Hospital
Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.
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Traverse City, Michigan
Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.
Detroit, Michigan
A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.
Detroit, Michigan
This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.
Detroit, Michigan
To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.
Detroit, Michigan
The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.
Traverse City, Michigan
A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.
Metamora, Indiana
More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers
Valparaiso, Indiana
This midcentury chapel is a bold architectural statement and a symbol of Indiana's Lutheran heritage.
Anderson, Indiana
A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.
West Lafayette, Indiana
The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Fortville, Indiana
The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.
Elkhart, Indiana
The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."
Indianapolis, Indiana
This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.
Jeffersonville, Indiana
This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.
Chesterton, Indiana
The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.
Bedford, Indiana
The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.
Shirley, Illinois
Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.
Chicago, Illinois
One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
Charleston, Illinois
The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.
Batavia, Illinois
World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.
Chicago, Illinois
Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.