Places Stymie Wants to Go

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

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

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

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

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

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.

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

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.