Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

This former county courthouse was originally an opulent hotel and entertainment venue.

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

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

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

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

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

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

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

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

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

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

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

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

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

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

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

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

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