Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

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

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

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

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

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

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

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

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

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

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

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

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

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

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.