Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

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

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

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

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

What started as a display of antique hearses has grown into a museum exploring the history of the funeral industry.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

The world's largest Our Lady of Guadalupe statue overlooks this Ohio sanctuary.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

This bridge uses an inverted bowstring truss and is believed to be the only of its kind in the United States.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.