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

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

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

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

This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

Annual Easter display made up of thousands of hand-painted eggs.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

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

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

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