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

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The structure has welcomed visitors to this scenic harbor city on Lake Michigan for many decades.

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

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

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

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.

This monument honors the band's impromptu performance at Cadillac highschool's homecoming decades ago.

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

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

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

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

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.