Places rbowptown Wants to Go

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

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

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

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

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

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.