Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

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

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

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

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

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

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.