Michigan
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Trunkations
We Might Be (Cardiff) Giants
Farmington Hills - Marvelous Marvin Yagoda's Cardiff Giant was allegedly P.T. Barnum's -- by way of a Sotheby's auction. Full story
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Featured Attractions
World's Largest Cherry Pie Battle
Charlevoix and Traverse City, Michigan
The pies are gone, but the pie tins struggle on.
Da Yoopers Tourist Trap
Ishpeming, Michigan
Cultural center for beer guzzling, flatulent, hapless hunting Yoopers.
American Museum of Magic
Marshall, Michigan
In a genteel downtown, a mysterious aggregation of hocus and pocus.
Jackson Cascades
Jackson, Michigan
Lights! Water! Elvis! Muticolored splashy evening fun in a park in Michigan.
World's Largest Tire
Allen Park, Michigan
World's Fair retread that stands 80-ft. tall. Your head could get stuck in a tread.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Allen Park: World's Largest Tire [tips]
- Alpena: Paul Bunyan Made of Car Parts
- Bessemer: Ski Bum Statue
- Cedar Lake: 2-story Outhouse [tips]
- Charlevoix: World's Largest Cherry Pie
- Chassell: Giant Bear Trap [tips]
- Cheboygan: Sea Shell City
- Christmas: Giant statues of Mr. and Mrs. Claus [tips]
- Cross Village: Upside-down stove restaurant [tips]
- Dearborn: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
- Detroit: Parking Structure with Beautiful Ceiling [tips]
- Detroit: World's Largest Stove [tips]
- Durand: Circus Train Wreck Memorial [tips]
- Elk Rapids: Dean of Tourist Activity
- Farmington Hills: Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
- Fennville: Betty, dead dog in a sleigh [tips]
- Frankenmuth: Bavarian-themed Christmas-y town [tips]
- Gladstone: Hoegh Pet Casket Factory Tours
- Grand Haven: Musical Fountain [tips]
- Grand Rapids: First City With Fluoridated Water Memorial [tips]
- Grand Rapids: Gerald Ford Museum [tips]
- Hamtramck: Neon Kielbasa [tips]
- Hell: Town named... [tips]
- Holland: Dutch-Themed Town
- Indian River: Cross in the Woods, Nun Doll Museum.
- Ironwood: Hiawatha statue [tips]
- Ironwood: Smiley Water Tower
- Ishpeming: Da Yoopers Tourist Trap [tips]
- Ishpeming: US National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum
- Jackson: Mr. Chicken the Plastic-legged Rooster
- Jackson: The Cascades [tips]
- Kaleva: Bottle House [tips]
- Kalkaska: Trout Fountain
- L'Anse: Shrine of the Snowshoe Priest [tips]
- Levering: Sea Shell City
- Marshall: American Museum of Magic
- Manistique: Paul Bunyan statue
- Midland: Tridge - 3-way bridge [tips]
- Moran: Weird Michigan Wax Museum
- Millington: Smiley Face Water Tower [tips]
- Oscoda: Paul Bunyan statue [Catalog of Bunyans]
- Oscoda: Lumbermen's Monument [tips]
- Ossineke: Dinosaur Gardens Prehistoric Zoo
- Ossineke: Paul Bunyan and Babe
- Paris: Eiffel Tower and the Indian
- Plymouth: Robert Wadlow's Shoe [tips]
- Rockford: Dinerland USA and Diner Mini Golf [tips]
- Somerset: Concrete Wood Art [tips]
- St. Ignace: Paul Bunyan and Babe
- St. Ignace: Mystery Spot
- Sault St. Marie: Antlers, taxidermy restaurant [tips]
- Traverse City: World Champion Cow of the Insane
- Traverse City: World's Largest Cherry Pie [tips]
- Ypsilanti: Big Cow [tips]
