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An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

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

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

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.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

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

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.