A massive portrait of Abraham Lincoln created with approximately 24,500 pennies.

This elaborately-carved white marble fountain was built to stand outside the Detroit Opera House.

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

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

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

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.