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Detroit, Michigan

Lincoln Street Art Park

permanently closed
This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.
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Cedar, Michigan

Sugar Loaf Ski Lodge

permanently closed
A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.
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Detroit, Michigan

Southwestern High School

permanently closed
This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.
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Grayling, Michigan

Camp Grayling Military Cemetery

At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.
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Lansing, Michigan

World's Largest Lug Nut

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

MBAD African Bead Museum

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.
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Maple City, Michigan

The Rising Sun Shipwreck

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Matthaei Botanical Gardens

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.
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Kalamazoo, Michigan

The Old Gibson Guitar Factory

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.
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Mears, Michigan

Silver Lake Sand Dunes

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.
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Mackinac Island, Michigan

Skull Cave

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.
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Akron, Ohio

B.F. Goodrich Co. Smokestacks

This former factory has deep ties to rubber production in Akron.
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Hannibal, Ohio

Hannibal Locks and Dam

This outdoor exhibit features a historic wooden dam once used to help boats navigate the Ohio River.
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Akron, Ohio

John Brown Monument

A moving tribute to a leader of the American abolitionist movement.
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Chillicothe, Ohio

Hopewell Culture National Historic Park

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.
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Marietta, Ohio

Cawley & Peoples Mortuary Museum

What started as a display of antique hearses has grown into a museum exploring the history of the funeral industry.
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Windsor, Ohio

Servants of Mary Center for Peace

The world's largest Our Lady of Guadalupe statue overlooks this Ohio sanctuary.
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Cleveland, Ohio

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.
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Cambridge, Ohio

Dickens Victorian Village

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.
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Columbus, Ohio

The Handprint

A single handprint, which, according to Ohio State University legend, cannot be scrubbed off.
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Sandusky, Ohio

Plum Brook Station (Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility)

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.
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Marietta, Ohio

The Mound Cemetery

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.
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Americus, Georgia

Habitat for Humanity's Global Village & Discovery Center

permanently closed
HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.
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