The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.

This garden memorial marks the site where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by the Cleveland Police Department.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

A 30-foot stack of piano keys memorializes one of the greatest keys players in jazz history.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

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

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

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

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

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

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

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

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

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