Michigan Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Michigan. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Detroit
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Allegan: Allegan County Old Jail Museum - Allen Park: World's Largest Tire
- Allendale: Scrap Metal Marching Band
- Almont: Big Steer and Moose Car
- Alpena: 3D Fish Mural
- Alpena: Big Bald Eagle Head
- Alpena: Kaiser Paul: Bunyan Made of Car Parts
- Alpena: Maritime Center, Century of Shipwrecks
- Ann Arbor: Big Carrots
- Ann Arbor: Giant Slug
- Ann Arbor: Leaning Tower of Pizza
- Ann Arbor: Peace Corps Conceived
- Ann Arbor: See No Evil
- Ann Arbor: Sine Wave Field
- Ann Arbor: Singing in the Rain Mural
- Ann Arbor: Waving President Ford
- Ann Arbor: Whisks: Chocolate, Vanilla
- Arcadia: Gravity Hill: Church Magnet
- Armada: Big Apple
- Atlanta: Elk Capital of Michigan
- Atwood: Wayside Chapel
- Au Train: The Face in the Rock
- Bagley: Car On A Grain Bin
- Baldwin: Shrine of the Pines
- Baldwin: World's Largest Brown Trout
- Bangor: Muffler Man - Viking
- Bath: Site of Worst School Massacre
- Battle Creek: Fantasy Forest
- Battle Creek: Giant Sojourner Truth Statue
- Battle Creek: Park of Transplanted Bridges
- Battle Creek: The Kellogg Rejuvenators
- Battle Creek: World at her Fingertips
- Bay City: Project Dustoff: Helicopter On A Pole
- Bay City: Tour a Navy Destroyer
- Bay City: World's Largest Fire Truck
- Bear Lake: Yellow Dinosaurs
- Belding: Shoe Tree - Cursed!
- Belleville: Yankee Air Museum
- Benton Harbor: Eden Springs Park
- Benton Harbor: Skellville: Skeleton Scenes
- Bessemer: Large Ski Bum Statue
- Bete Gris: Singing Sands Beach
- Big Bay: Anatomy of a Murder Bar
- Birch Run: Animal Park Giraffe Statue
- Blissfield: Fighter Jet
- Brethren: James Earl Jones: Stutter-Free
- Brighton: Dine With Jesus
- Brighton: Head of Bob
- Brighton: Ugly Naked Guy
- Brimley: Old Indian Burial Ground
- Brooklyn: An Gorta Mor - Potato Famine Memorial
- Brooklyn: Muffler Man: Paul Bunyan
- Brooklyn: St. Joseph's Shrine - Fake Wood Sculptures
- Byron Center: Mysterious Glowing Grave
- Cadillac: Monument to KISS
- Calumet: Death Doorway of 1913
- Calumet: License Plate Garage
- Camden: Stand on Three States
- Caspian: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Cassopolis: Casey Jones: Private Muffler Man
- Cassopolis: Memorial to "The First Spaceman"
- Cedar Lake: Two-Story Outhouse
- Cedar Springs: Big Library Owl of Wisdom
- Centennial Heights: Stone Boat No. 2
- Charlevoix: Mushroom Houses or Hobbit Homes
- Charlevoix: World's Former Largest Cherry Pie Pan
- Cheboygan: Man Killing Clam!
- Chelsea: Home of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix - Tours
- Chesterfield: Atlas Holding the World of Tools
- China Township: Golf Giant
- Christmas: Casino Santa
- Christmas: Town of Christmas, Santa Cutouts
- Clare: Lighthouse, Highway Workers Memorial
- Clare: Pioneer Mother: a Mom-ument
- Clawson: DavidLand
- Clay Township: Water Tank Lighthouse
- Coleman: Ghost Soldiers
- Coloma: Deer Forest Animal Park
- Colon: Magic Capital of the World, Magicians Buried Here
- Concord: Mail Pouch Sign With Metastatic Message
- Copper Harbor: Delaware Copper Mine Tours
- Copper Harbor: Keweenaw Rocket Range Monument
- Copper Harbor: North Point of US-41
- Cross Village: Legs Inn - Upside-down Stove Legs
- Croswell: Swinging Bridge
- Daggett: Naughty Cow Statue
- Davison: Robin Hood Statue
- Dearborn: Automotive Hall of Fame
- Dearborn: Ford Rouge Factory Tour
- Dearborn: Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
- Detroit: 100-Foot-High Stevie Wonder Mural
- Detroit: Abraham Lincoln Nose Job
- Detroit: Birthplace of the Model T
- Detroit: Curtis Museum: House of Beauty Hair Mall
- Detroit: Demons of Martin Luther
- Detroit: Detroit Chimera Graffiti Mural
- Detroit: Detroit's Point of Origin
- Detroit: Eight Mile Wall
- Detroit: Giant Bowling Pin
- Detroit: Giant Cow Head
- Detroit: Giant Tigers
- Detroit: Hitsville, U.S.A.: The Motown Museum
- Detroit: Lawndale Market - The People's Polaroids
- Detroit: Mighty Fist of Joe Louis
- Detroit: Mural of Obama, MLK, and Jesus
- Detroit: Parking Garage with Beautiful Ceiling
- Detroit: Statue and Tomb of the Boy Governor
- Detroit: The Heidelberg Project
- Detroit: The Spirit of Detroit
- Detroit: Transmission Man
- Detroit: Waiting - Detroit's Eeriest Artwork?
- Douglas: The Barrel
- Dundee: World's Largest Bronze Wildlife Sculpture - Cabela's
- Durand: Circus Train Wreck Memorial
- Durand: Knights Templar Train Wreck
- East Grand Rapids: Tiny President Ford
- East Lansing: Abrams Planetarium Blacklight Gallery
- East Lansing: Magic Johnson Statue
- East Lansing: Sparty the Spartan - World's Largest Free-Standing Ceramic Figure
- East Leroy: Giant Ice Cream Cone
- East Tawas: Ice Cream Boy: Former Teen Burger
- Elk Rapids: Big Swan Statue
- Elk Rapids: Woolly Mammoth
- Ellsworth: Tiny Church - The Wayside Chapel
- Elm Hall: Michigan's Smallest Post Office
- Elsie: Elsie the Cow: a Big Bull
- Emmett: Duff Beer Can and Cigarette Pack
- Empire: Gilbert the T-Rex
- Escanaba: Walk of the Planets
- Fairview: Stone Indian Head
- Farmington Hills: Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
- Farmington: Big Raven Made of Tire Scraps
- Fennville: Betty the Stuffed Sleigh Dog
- Fenton: Grateful Fred
- Fenton: Town-Naming Poker Game in Bronze
- Flint: Anthony Bourdain Mural
- Flint: Sit-Down Men and Stand-Up Women
- Flint: Weather Ball
- Flushing: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Frankenmuth: Bavarian Chicken Rivalry
- Frankenmuth: Bavarian-Themed Christmas Town
- Frankenmuth: Klaus the Cheese Haus Mouse
- Frankenmuth: Michigan Heroes Museum
- Frankenmuth: Yogi Bear Statue
- Fruitport: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Gaylord: 45-Foot-Tall Bottle of Beer
- Gaylord: Call of the Wild Museum
- Gaylord: Halfway Between Equator and North Pole
- Gay: Gay Bar
- Germfask: Benny the Beard-Fishing Troll
- Glen Arbor: Olympic Size Cherry Spitting Pit
- Grand Haven: Brass Grand River and Sundial
- Grand Haven: Musical Fountain
- Grand Marais: Pickle Barrel House
- Grand Rapids: 1911 Furniture Strike
- Grand Rapids: Abstract Monument to Fluoridation
- Grand Rapids: Astronaut Roger Chaffee Statue
- Grand Rapids: Big Apple
- Grand Rapids: Football Player Gerald Ford Made of Junk
- Grand Rapids: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
- Grand Rapids: Leonardo da Vinci's Giant Horse
- Grand Rapids: Project X
- Grand Rapids: Rosa Parks in Unfamiliar Pose
- Grand Rapids: Scrap Metal Marching Band
- Grand Rapids: Statue: President Ford As A Boy Scout
- Grand Rapids: The 13 Weather Ball
- Grass Lake: Michigan Whitetail Hall of Fame Museum
- Grayling: Two Tanks, Jet, Rocket, Anchor
- Greenland: Adventure Mine
- Gulliver: Yooper and His Cow
- Hamtramck: 30-Foot-Tall Neon Kielbasa Sign
- Hamtramck: Hamtramck Disneyland - Dmytro Szylak Folk Art
- Hamtramck: Plywood Ice Cream Cone
- Hamtramck: Statue of Pope John Paul II
- Hancock: Monument to Big Louie, the Copper Country Giant
- Hart: Big Tin Man
- Hazel Park: 1937 Bottle House
- Hazel Park: Buster the Burger Donkey
- Hazel Park: Tubby, Submarine Sandwich Man
- Hell: Town of Hell
- Hickory Corners: Gilmore Car Museum: Drive a Model T
- Holland: Dutch-themed Town
- Holland: Jet On A Stick
- Holland: Michigan-Shaped Swimming Pool
- Holland: Padnos Scrap Metal Sculptures
- Holland: Wonderful World of Oz Statues
- Honor: Cherry Bowl Drive-In Theater
- Hulbert: Bowling Ball Tree
- Indian River: 32-Foot-Long Steel Sturgeon
- Indian River: Giant Crucifix and Nun Doll Museum
- Iron Mountain: A.C. Hoyle Winch Guy, Steam Pump
- Iron Mountain: Bat Hibernation Mines
- Iron Mountain: Bomb Disposal Soldier Memorial
- Iron Mountain: Carved Miner, Indian, and Ghost
- Iron Mountain: Pine Mountain Ski Jump
- Iron River: First Rest Area in the U.S.
- Ironwood: Big Stormy Kromer Cap
- Ironwood: Hiawatha: World's Largest Indian
- Ironwood: Miners Memorial Mural
- Ironwood: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Ishpeming: Da Yoopers Tourist Trap
- Ishpeming: Indian Old Ish
- Ishpeming: U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum
- Jackson: Big Old Shoe
- Jackson: Birthplace of the Republican Party
- Jackson: Grave of Mr. Chicken the Plastic-Legged Rooster
- Jackson: Military Museum: Indoor Trench, Wooden Tank
- Jackson: The Jackson Cascades
- Jackson: Tour Prison Tunnels, Cells, Loft Apts
- Jenison: Terrain Map of the United States
- Jerome: Fake Carcasses, Giant Deer
- Kalamazoo: Air Zoo
- Kalamazoo: Einstein Tosses a Frisbee
- Kalamazoo: The Committee (Face Full of Crotch)
- Kaleva: Bottle House
- Kaleva: Giant St. Urho Grasshopper
- Kalkaska: Big Trout Fountain
- Kearsarge: U.S.S. Kearsarge: Ship of Stones
- Kentwood: Big Coffee Cup
- Kewadin: Monument to the Dean of Michigan's Tourism Activity
- Kinde: Secret Sky Barn: Glows at Night
- L'Anse: Bishop Baraga - Shrine of the Snowshoe Priest
- Lake Odessa: Tiny Church
- Lakeview: Big Metal Corn Stalk
- Lansing: Big Pencils, Big Things
- Lansing: Big Penny: Truck Munching Bridge
- Lansing: Bottle Rocket Sculpture
- Lansing: Gearhead
- Lansing: Inspirational Road Signs
- Lansing: R.E. Olds Transportation Museum
- Lansing: Restaurant Covered in Junk
- Lansing: Steam Powered Clock
- Lansing: The Worker: Metal Beam Man
- Laurium: Memorial to the Gipper
- Leslie: Tombstone of the Cream-of-Wheat Man
- Lewiston: Coopersville USA
- Linwood: Big Cow at Cheese Shop
- Mackinac Island: Is it you? Monument: Somewhere In Time
- Mackinac Island: Lady Liberty on the Island
- Mackinac Island: The Haunted Theater
- Mackinac Island: World's Longest Porch
- Mackinaw City: Giant Hot Dog
- Mackinaw City: Mack-A-Tron
- Mackinaw City: Mackinac Bridge Museum
- Mackinaw City: Wacky Taxidermy and Miniatures Museum
- Mancelona: Deadman's Hill Scenic Overlook
- Manistee: Robert Wadlow's Shoe, Statue
- Manistique: Paul Bunyan Statue
- Manistique: Pull-it-Yourself Raft
- Marquette: Lakenenland: Junk Art Park
- Marquette: Large Cows
- Marquette: Phil the Window Washer
- Marshall: American Museum of Magic
- Mason: Eight Wooden Soldiers
- McBain: Tiny Church
- McMillan: Pink Moose
- Melvindale: Recycled Big Dog
- Memphis: Marker: The Thing
- Menominee: Boy and the Boot
- Menominee: Half Way North - 45th Parallel Marker
- Midland: America's Longest Canopy Walk
- Midland: Esefra, not Hitler
- Midland: Santa House
- Midland: The Tridge - 3-Way Bridge
- Mikado: Nose-Down Car with Body Parts
- Millington: Old Mobil Gas Station
- Millington: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Mio: Big Chair in Disrepair
- Mio: Pink Elephant
- Mohawk: The Snow Stick
- Monroe: Eat in 1950s Cars Made into Booths
- Monroe: General George Custer Memorial
- Montague: World's Largest Weather Vane
- Montrose: Montrose Historical and Telephone Pioneer Museum
- Mount Clemens: Anatomy of Death Museum
- Mount Clemens: Giant Muscled Head of JFK
- Mount Clemens: Warrior Heads Atop Skyscraper
- Munising: Indian Head Rock, Miner's Castle
- Muskegon: America's Tallest Singing Christmas Tree
- Muskegon: Buster Keaton Statue
- Muskegon: Front Lawn Lincoln
- Muskegon: Grave of the Branded Hand
- Muskegon: Moxie: Manhole Mastodon
- Muskegon: Snurfer Monument - Birthplace of Snowboarding
- Muskegon: WWII Submarine Silversides
- Muskegon: World's Oldest and Least Flattering McKinley Statue
- Naubinway: Top of the Lake Snowmobile Museum
- New Baltimore: Big Gary: Former Papa Burger
- New Baltimore: Muffler Man: Greg E. Normous
- Newaygo: Abortion Memorial
- Newaygo: Fish Heads in the Park
- Newberry: Oswald's Bear Ranch
- Newberry: Paul Bunyan's Cook Camp
- Niles: Chicken Statue
- Niles: Old Tavern Inn: Michigan's Oldest Business
- Niles: Tin Man Traffic Sign
- Niles: Two-Headed Lamb
- Northport: JoLean: Uniroyal Gal
- Norway: Viking Ship
- Nunica: Front Lawn Stonehenge
- Olivet: Tiny Church Prayer Chapel
- Omer: Easter Island Head
- Onaway: Giant Metal Heads and World's Largest Steering Wheel
- Onaway: Giant Washington Head and Aircraft Carrier
- Onsted: Ike's Train Car of Terror
- Onsted: Mystery Hill
- Onsted: Prehistoric Forest
- Orion: 45-Foot-Tall Bottle of Beer
- Oscoda: Lumbermen's Monument
- Oscoda: Paul Bunyan Statue
- Ossineke: 1940s Paul Bunyan and Babe
- Ossineke: Dinosaur Gardens Prehistoric Zoo
- Ottawa Lake: World's Tallest Uncle Sam
- Owosso: Curwood Castle
- Owosso: Graveside Monument to Mr. Jefferson Nickel
- Paradise: Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
- Paradise: Town Named Paradise
- Paris: 20-Foot-Tall Eiffel Tower and 8-Foot-Tall Indian
- Perry: Ice Cream Cone-Shaped Building
- Petoskey: Archangel Grotto
- Petoskey: Artesian Springs - Bring Your Own Cup
- Petoskey: Mysterious Moving Tombstone
- Petoskey: Underwater Crucifix of Gerald Schapinski
- Pinckney: Big Chicken, Sasquatch-Bigfoot
- Pinconning: Big Cheese Mouse
- Plymouth: Robert Wadlow Shoe and Wayward Lincolnabilia
- Plymouth: United Memorial Gardens
- Pontiac: Chief Pontiac: Indoor Muffler Man
- Pontiac: Mythos Museum of Oddities and Curiosities
- Port Austin: Hocking's Emergency Ark - Barn Boat
- Port Huron: Oversized Dog
- Port Huron: Stella Clair: Steel Sturgeon
- Portland: New Era Potato Chip Silo
- Posen: Mystery Valley
- Potterville: Gizzard City
- Rapid River: Peninsula Point Lighthouse
- Reed City: Little Mac Rickety Replica Bridge
- Reed City: Old Rugged Cross Museum
- Reed City: The Old Rugged Cross
- River Rouge: Gas Tank Basketball
- Rogers City: Torch of Freedom
- Rogers City: World's Largest Limestone Quarry
- Rogers City: Wreck of the Joseph S. Fay
- Romeo: Home-Built Twin Towers 9/11 Memorial
- Roseville: National Coney Island Tower
- Royal Oak: Superman in Phone Booth
- Saginaw: Castle Museum: Postal Inspector Peep Holes
- Saginaw: Stevie Wonder Rock
- Saginaw: Tombstone of Mr. 50-Star Flag
- Salem: Shoe Tree
- Saugatuck: Human-Powered Chain Ferry
- Sault St. Marie: Tower of History
- Sault Ste. Marie: Antlers Restaurant
- Sault Ste. Marie: Tour a Great Lakes Freighter
- Sawyer: Town of Fighter Jets
- Shelby Township: Packard Proving Grounds
- Somerset: WHL McCourtie Estate: Concrete Wood Art
- South Haven: Abe Lincoln Sat Here (or There)
- South Haven: Blue Moo and Baby Moo
- South Haven: Michigan Flywheelers Museum
- South Lyon: Michigan War Dog Memorial Park
- St. Ignace: America Moose
- St. Ignace: Deer Ranch, Leaping Deer Statue
- St. Ignace: Indian Village
- St. Ignace: Mystery Spot
- St. Ignace: Paul Bunyan and Babe - Castle Rock
- St. Ignace: Wooden Observation Tower and Teepee
- St. Joseph: Car on Drive-Thru Roof
- St. Louis: Geographical Center of Michigan's Lower Peninsula
- St. Louis: Mini Mackinac Bridge
- St. Louis: Tombstone for a Town
- Strongs: Shoe Tree
- Sturgis: World's Last Hot 'n Now
- Sumner: License Plate Barn
- Suttons Bay: 45th Parallel Sign
- Tawas City: Animal Playground
- Tecumseh: Steel Dino Sculptures
- Traverse City: Dairy Lodge Cone Girl
- Traverse City: Grave: Cow of the Insane
- Traverse City: Handprints of the Stars
- Traverse City: High and Dry 45th Parallel Marker
- Traverse City: Man Made of Canoes
- Traverse City: Mental Hospital Tour: Buildings and Tunnels
- Traverse City: Statue: Cow of the Insane
- Traverse City: World's Largest Cherry Pie Pan
- Trenary: Outhouse Races
- Troy: Polar Bear Memorial to Russian-Fightin' Doughboys
- Union: Large Bear Statue
- Vassar: Giant Santa Claus
- Vermontville: Giant Carved Statues, Syrup Queen
- Vulcan: Bear Statue
- Vulcan: Big John: World's Largest Miner Sign
- Vulcan: Iron Mountain Iron Mine Tour
- Wakefield: Nee-Gaw-Nee-Gaw-Bow - Peter Toth Indian
- Wallace: Big Buck Jumps Log
- Watersmeet: The Paulding Light
- Watervliet: Rare WWI Made-in-the-USA Cannon
- Webberville: Scrap Metal Mr. Wheeler
- Wells: Smiley Face Water Tower
- West Branch: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Westland: Wooden Statue Grave Of Police K9 Zeek
- Williamsburg: Music House Museum
- Wolverine: Gnome Village
- Ypsilanti: Big Milker in Ypsi
- Ypsilanti: Chick Inn Drive-In - Carhops
- Ypsilanti: Phallic Water Tower
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Atlanta: Shoe Tree
- Battle Creek: Cereal City USA
- Battle Creek: Fetuses in Jars - Kingman Museum
- Beaverton: Big Metal Dragon
- Bridgeport: Junction Valley Railroad - Miniature Trains
- Caro: Witch Museum
- Cassopolis: Sinclair Service Station
- Chassell: Giant Bear Trap - A Tourist Trap
- Clinton Township: Cryonics Institute Tours
- Comins: Creepy Baby Hill
- Commerce Twp: World's Largest O-Scale Model Railroad
- Detroit: House Of Mirrors In A Building
- Detroit: Monumental Kitty
- Detroit: Totem Car
- Detroit: World's Largest Stove
- Dexter: Strange Sculpture: Procession to Hell
- East Lansing: World's Largest Hairball - Storage
- Edwardsburg: Lunker's, Home of the Lunkquarium
- Ewen: World's Largest Replica Load of Logs
- Flint: Auto World
- Flint: Dort Mall: Dr. Doolittle's Boat
- Gladstone: Pet Casket Factory Tours
- Gladstone: State Birds - Robin and Mosquito
- Gladwin: Petting Farm with Goat Ramp
- Grand Beach: World's Largest Fake Nose and Glasses
- Grand Marais: Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum
- Grand Rapids: 100-Foot-Long Loch Ness Monster
- Grand Rapids: Giant Steampunk Flying Pig
- Grand Rapids: Snowhenge
- Grayling: Bottle Cap Museum
- Grosse Ile: Wonder Well
- Harbor Springs: Junk Robin
- Harrison: Spikehorn's - Live Bears
- Holland: Michigan's Largest Picnic Table
- Hudson: Giant Chicken
- Irish Hills: Stagecoach Stop USA
- Jackson: Michigan Space Center
- Jackson: Prison Museum in Working Prison
- Jackson: The Orgy Statue
- Jones: Manufactured Western Ghost Town
- Kalamazoo: Controversial Sculpture of Whites vs Indians
- Kalkaska: Shoe Tree
- Lennon: Lawn Ornament Capital of America
- Mancelona: Robinson Scenic Gardens
- Manistee: Lakeside Lion
- Maple Ridge Township: Mystery Falls Sinkhole
- Midland: John Pratt Mosaic House
- Munising: Bigfoot Recovery Project
- New Buffalo: Chinese Dragon Statue
- New Hudson: Mephisto in Landfill Sculpture Park
- Northville: ToothQuake: Piles of Big Teeth
- Norton Shores: The Hand
- Okemos: Travelers Club International Restaurant & Tuba Museum
- Onsted: Irish Hills Blarney Stone - Vague Recollections
- Pinconning: Deer Acres Amusement Park
- Port Huron: Knowlton's Ice Museum
- Redford: Silvio's Italian American Historical Artistic Museum
- Rockford: Abandoned Dinerland
- Shaftsburg: Flying Saucer and Bigfoot
- St. Helen: Shoe Tree
- St. Ignace: Weird Michigan Wax Museum
- Tawas City: Indian Monument
- Three Oaks: Big Working Kaleidoscope
- Troy: Corporate Teamwork Head
- Waterford: Hollywood Sign Replica
- West Branch: Giant Sitting Paul Bunyan
