Places Rick Brown Wants to Go

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

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

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

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

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

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

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

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

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

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

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

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

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

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

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.