Places sameyer716 Wants to Go

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

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

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

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

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

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A factory in Milwaukee where poop is reclaimed… and recycled.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.