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These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

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

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

This bridge was constructed from the remains of the first Ferris wheel.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

A herd of roughly 250 American bison roam these plains.

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

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

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

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

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

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