Cleveland, Ohio
Jesse Owens Statue
A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.
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Cleveland, Ohio
A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.
Cleveland, Ohio
This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."
Detroit, Michigan
The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Detroit, Michigan
Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.
Troy, Michigan
This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.
Birmingham, Michigan
Classic burger joint that’s been serving up sliders since 1952.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Dearborn, Michigan
A comprehensive archive of Hallmark Holiday ornaments.
Dearborn, Michigan
One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.
Dearborn, Michigan
Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Lorain, Ohio
A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.
Kent, Ohio
Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.
Kent, Ohio
This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.
Charles Town, West Virginia
This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Frederick, Maryland
According to local history, this cast-iron canine was nearly melted down for bullets during the Civil War.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.
Jefferson, Maryland
One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
New Haven, Connecticut
An artist of the American Revolution is entombed beneath the Yale art gallery he founded.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.