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All the United States Michigan Dearborn

The Atlas Obscura Guide To Dearborn

5 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Dearborn, Michigan

Updated May 29, 2025

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Dymaxion House

Dearborn, Michigan

Dymaxion House

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

Dearborn, Michigan

Edison's Last Breath

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

Dearborn, Michigan

Owl Night Lunch Wagon

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.
The roundhouse at Greenfield Village.

Dearborn, Michigan

The Roundhouse at Greenfield Village

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.
The ornament collection spans decades.

Dearborn, Michigan

The Hallmark Collection at the Henry Ford Museum

A comprehensive archive of Hallmark Holiday ornaments.
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Detroit Salt Mine

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.
2 miles from Dearborn
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Once the home of the Southwestern High School Prospectors.

Detroit, Michigan

Southwestern High School

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.
3 miles from Dearborn

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Hajjar Baban finds meaning and a sense of place in the spaces between her words.

Meet the Afghan Kurdish Poet Who Finds a Sense of Place in the ‘Silences’

Born in Pakistan and raised in Michigan, Hajjar Baban’s roots come through in her words—and the spaces between them.
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September 23, 2021
T. H. Buckley inside one of his lunch wagons.

Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' From Beautiful Wagons

They were the ancestors of the modern diner.
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September 13, 2018

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