Places randyjodibarnes Wants to Go

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

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

In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

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