Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

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

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.

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

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

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

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