There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

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.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

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

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

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

World's largest Christmas store.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

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

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

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

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

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

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

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

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

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