The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

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.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

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

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

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

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

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

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

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.