Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Michigan

While in Michigan, you might enjoy a visit to:

An towering symbol of American -- and particularly the Detroit area's -- highway prowess. Built as a Ferris Wheel for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
~29 miles from Rochester.

In the Plymouth Historical Museum is a size 37 shoe, custom-made for the World's Tallest Man, plus an impressive collection of out-of-place Lincoln relics, including wax figures, a bearded death mask, and a lock of posthumously clipped hair.
~28 miles from Rochester.

An obelisk in Lovejoy Cemetery memorializes the humans killed when two circus trains collided in 1903.
~46 miles from Rochester.

Stuck like chicken bones in each other's throats, two rival, giant, all-you-can eat Bavarian fried chicken restaurants, on opposite sides of the same street, are run by factions of the same family!
~54 miles from Rochester.

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