The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

Locals often dress this effigy of Traverse City's founder in festive outfits.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

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

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

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

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

The restored ferry is now a dockside museum and a unique bed and breakfast.

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

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

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

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.

A memorial to the Potawatomi chief who allegedly ran nearly 150 miles to alert settlers of an impending attack.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.