Bryson City, North Carolina
Kuwohi
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
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Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.
Frankfort, Kentucky
This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.
Columbus, Ohio
The walls of the statehouse tell the story of Ohio’s prehistoric past.
Hilliard, Ohio
A retro walk through the history of the tube.
Cleveland, Ohio
Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.
Cleveland, Ohio
This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.
Cleveland, Ohio
A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.
Cleveland, Ohio
This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.
Bowling Green, Ohio
Evidence from a brutal 1880s murder is on display at this former infirmary house.
Toledo, Ohio
This unique collection collects pieces of art etched into thin pieces of stone.
Detroit, Michigan
The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.
Detroit, Michigan
Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.
Detroit, Michigan
The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.
Detroit, Michigan
Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
Dearborn, Michigan
One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Dearborn, Michigan
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
Detroit, Michigan
Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.
South Lyon, Michigan
This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.