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38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

A goblet-shaped rock that, according to lore, is the home of an elven hermit.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

More than 150 snowmobiles fill this Michigan museum.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.