In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

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

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

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

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

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.