Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

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

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

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

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

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

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

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

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

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

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

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

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.