A science teacher's dream.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

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

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

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

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

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

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

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

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.