Places nickblossom Wants to Go

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

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

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

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

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.