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Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

An 18.9-meter tower that pays tribute to the Pennsylvania-German pioneers who settled the Waterloo Region between 1800 and 1803.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

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

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

This bridge uses an inverted bowstring truss and is believed to be the only of its kind in the United States.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.