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This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

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

An easy-to-reach, century-old shipwreck in shallow and crystal clear waters.

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

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

The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

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