Places Holden Dahlerbruch Wants to Go

This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”

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

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

The restored ferry is now a dockside museum and a unique bed and breakfast.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

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

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

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

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

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

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

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