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

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

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

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

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

Although outnumbered, the Tecumseh Confederacy defeated a large regiment of United States troops.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

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

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

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.