Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

A 12-foot sculpture serves as a constant reminder of the importance of protecting and restoring the Boardman River.   

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

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.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

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

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

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

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

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

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

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

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.