Detroit, Michigan
The Dequindre Cut Greenway
This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.
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Detroit, Michigan
This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.
Detroit, Michigan
Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.
Flint, Michigan
A bronze sculpture dedicated to a historic labor dispute in the U.S. automotive industry.
Detroit, Michigan
Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.
Detroit, Michigan
Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
Detroit, Michigan
This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.
Detroit, Michigan
The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.
Detroit, Michigan
The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.
Detroit, Michigan
Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.
Hamtramck, Michigan
A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.
Frankenmuth, Michigan
World's largest Christmas store.
Saginaw, Michigan
Soaring mural splashed across 70-year-old silos in Michigan.
Midland, Michigan
There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.
Clare, Michigan
The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.
St. Ignace, Michigan
Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.
Seymour, Wisconsin
A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.
Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.
Gladstone, Michigan
World's largest pet casket company brings in up to $5 million per year in revenue.
Manistique, Michigan
This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.
Maribel, Wisconsin
These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.
New Franken, Wisconsin
In 1859, the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared in this small town.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.