Places reaganmachugh Wants to Go

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

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

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

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.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

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

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

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

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

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

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

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

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

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

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