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This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

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

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

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

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

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

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.

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

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.