This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

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

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

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

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

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

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

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

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

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

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

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

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

This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.

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

A preserved stump is all that remains of the once-mighty hardwood.

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