Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

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

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

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

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

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

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

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.