Places Rick Brown Wants to Go

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

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

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

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

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

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

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

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

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

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

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

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

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.