Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

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

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

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

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

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

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

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

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

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

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

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

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

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

This historic museum is home to a rare Confederate Chester Gun.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.