During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

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

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

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

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

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

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

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.