This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

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

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

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

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

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.