Places Stefanie Caloia Wants to Go

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

Artist Scott Hocking took a dilapidated 1890s barn to create his massive "Barnboat."

A small mountain made entirely of banded iron stone overlooking downtown Ishpeming.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

In this quiet park a rendition of a classic painting graces the outside of a charming restroom.

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.

This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.

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

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

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

This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

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