134 haunted destinations cataloged across Michigan, spanning 61 counties. The collection features cemetery, museum, and outdoor — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Detroit, MI
Historic Fort Wayne in Detroit is a 22-acre 1845 star fort built on the Detroit River as part of the U.S. coastal defense system following the War of 1812. The fort served as a Union mustering point during the Civil War and remained in active military use through World War II.
Ionia, MI
The Mill Street crossing in Ionia, Michigan was a street-level grade crossing on the former Central Michigan Railroad. The corridor has been converted into the Fred Meijer Grand River Valley Trail, a regional rail-trail managed for non-motorized use through Ionia County.
Detroit, MI
The Detroit Police 6th Precinct building at 6840 McGraw Avenue was designed by Van Leyen, Schilling & Keough; ground was broken June 19, 1930 and the station became operational that fall, replacing an earlier station at 3545 Vinewood. It served Southwest Detroit until 1986, was used as the Detroit Police Gang Squad Headquarters from 1986 to 2005, then sat vacant until purchased by Ed Steele in 2013 for restoration.
Hemlock, MI
Richland Lutheran Cemetery is located in Richfield Township, Saginaw County, on Dice Road approximately a quarter mile east of Hemlock Road. The cemetery records 953 burials and dates to the 19th century. The broader Dice Road corridor gained regional notoriety in the 1970s through documented paranormal investigation of a nearby farmhouse.
Westland, MI
Eloise opened in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse on 280 acres of farmland in Nankin Township, west of Detroit. Over the next century it grew into a self-sufficient complex of seventy-five buildings spread across 902 acres, peaking at roughly 10,000 residents during the Great Depression and combining a poorhouse, psychiatric hospital, tuberculosis sanatorium, and general hospital.
Ann Arbor, MI
Forest Hill Cemetery was organized by an Ann Arbor cemetery company in 1856 and dedicated on May 19, 1859 to replace the city's cramped original burial ground. Designed in the Romantic 'rural cemetery' style by Colonel J.L. Glenn of Niles, the 65-acre grounds were inspired by Mount Auburn in Boston. The Gothic Revival gatehouse and caretaker's residence by Gordon W. Lloyd were completed in 1866. Over 17,000 people are interred here, including Ann Arbor's co-founders, multiple U-M presidents, and football coaches Yost and Schembechler.
Detroit, MI
The Detroit Historical Museum at 5401 Woodward Avenue opened in 1951, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of Detroit's founding, though its institutional history begins in 1921 when civic leaders established the Detroit Historical Society. The current Woodward Avenue building replaced a one-room museum suite that had briefly occupied the 23rd floor of the Barlum Tower beginning in 1928.
Detroit, MI
The Detroit Institute of Arts traces its institutional origins to 1883 and has occupied its Woodward Avenue building since 1927. The museum holds one of the most significant art collections in the United States, spanning more than 65,000 works across six continents and 5,000 years of human culture. Free admission for Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne County residents is funded through a millage passed in 2012.
Detroit, MI
The Clara Ford Pavilion opened in June 1925 as the Clara Ford Nurses Home for the Henry Ford School of Nursing and Hygiene, named after Henry Ford's wife and designed by Albert Kahn. The school operated until 1996.
Detroit, MI
The Majestic Theatre opened on April 1, 1915, designed by architect C. Howard Crane, and originally seated 1,651 people as what was billed the world's largest movie theater. The Art Deco facade was added in 1934 when Woodward Avenue was widened and the original Italian-style front was demolished. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Detroit, MI
Motor City Ghosts is the Detroit franchise of US Ghost Adventures, a national tour operator. The one-hour walking tour, branded Macabre, Murder, & Mayhem in Motor City, departs from 100 Temple Street and covers the Cass Corridor's Prohibition-era and 20th-century crime history.
Detroit, MI
Motor City Ghosts is the local brand of US Ghost Adventures' Detroit walking tour. The one-hour, one-mile lantern-led route departs from 100 Temple Street and concludes at the Detroit Medical Center campus, covering haunted history at The Whitney, the Masonic Temple, and the Alhambra Building.
Detroit, MI
Abick's Bar has operated continuously at 3500 Gilbert Street since 1907, when John Benske built the corner saloon. In 1919, family member George Abick purchased the business, beginning a six-generation Abick/Soviak family ownership. The bar functioned as a Prohibition-era speakeasy — era bottles were later discovered in the walls — and is recognized as Detroit's oldest family-owned saloon.
Detroit, MI
Designed by Albert Kahn (a member of the congregation) and completed in 1902 as Temple Beth-El, the domed structure was reconfigured in late 1924-1925 by architect C. Howard Crane into the Bonstelle Playhouse for actress-impresario Jessie Bonstelle. Bonstelle ran the theatre until her death from a heart attack on October 14, 1932. Wayne State University acquired the building (then the Mayfair Theatre) in 1951 for its drama department, and renamed it the Bonstelle Theatre in 1963.
Detroit, MI
Founded in 1933 by Belgian immigrants on Detroit's east side, the Cadieux Cafe began as a Prohibition-era speakeasy and grew into the unofficial Belgian-American social hub of Metro Detroit. Robert and Yvonne Devos purchased it in 1962 and ran it for 56 years until the family sold to Paul Howard and John Rutherford in 2018.
Detroit, MI
Construction of the Detroit Masonic Temple ran from 1920 to 1926, with public dedication on Thanksgiving Day 1926. Designed by Detroit architect George D. Mason in a neo-Gothic style, the 1,037-room complex remains the largest Masonic Temple in the world. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, the building continues to function as a Masonic facility and major Detroit concert/theater venue.
Detroit, MI
The Main Branch of the Detroit Public Library opened on Woodward Avenue on March 29, 1921, designed by Cass Gilbert in Italian Renaissance style and constructed in Vermont and serpentine Italian marble. The north and south wings — designed by Gilbert's son Cass Gilbert Jr. with Francis Keally — were added in 1963, more than doubling the building's footprint. The library houses the Burton Historical Collection, one of the largest archives of Detroit and Michigan history.
Detroit, MI
Elmwood Cemetery was established in 1846 as an 86-acre garden cemetery on Detroit's east side, on ground that included the site of the July 31, 1763 Battle of Bloody Run from Pontiac's War. It was the first racially integrated cemetery in the Midwest and was later landscaped under the influence of the Frederick Law Olmsted firm. Civil War veterans, Detroit civic leaders, and 19th-century industrialists are buried here.
Detroit, MI
The Redford Theatre opened January 27, 1928 as the Kunsky-Redford Theatre, designed in an 'atmospheric' Japanese motif by the architectural firm of Verner, Wilhelm, Molby, RF Shreive for John H. Kunsky's Michigan theatre chain. The 1,600-seat house features one of only two surviving Barton 3-manual, 10-rank theatre organs in metro Detroit. Owned and operated since 1985 by the Motor City Theatre Organ Society.
Detroit, MI
Completed in 1894 for Detroit lumber baron David Whitney Jr. — then the city's wealthiest citizen — the 22,000 sq-ft Romanesque Revival mansion was designed by Gordon W. Lloyd at a cost of roughly $400,000. After Whitney's death in 1900, the home passed through his widow Sara, the Wayne County Medical Society (1932), and the Visiting Nurse Association before opening as a restaurant in 1986.
Detroit, MI
The Two Way Inn was established in 1876 by Colonel Philetus W. Norris (1821-1885) — Civil War Union officer, Detroit pioneer, founder of the village of Norris in 1873, and second superintendent of Yellowstone National Park (1877-1882). Over 150 years the building has served as stagecoach stop, general store, village jail, post office, hotel, brothel, dance hall, dentist's office, and Prohibition-era speakeasy. It is widely recognized as Detroit's oldest continuously operating bar.
Ann Arbor, MI
Naval surgeon Dr. Benajah Ticknor built the cobblestone farmhouse in 1844 with the help of mason Stephen Mills. After Ticknor's death in 1858, the property passed through several owners and was purchased by Scottish immigrant William Campbell in 1881; his descendants held it for 91 years before selling to the City of Ann Arbor in 1972 for use as a public museum.
Ann Arbor, MI
The Gandy Dancer occupies the former Michigan Central Railroad Depot, completed in 1886 by Detroit architects Spier & Rohns. The Richardsonian Romanesque depot served Ann Arbor's rail traffic for decades, hosted whistle-stop appearances by John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon during the 1960 campaign, and was converted to a restaurant by Chuck Muer in 1970. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Ann Arbor, MI
The Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library sits on the site of U-M's first General Library, completed in 1883. After fire-safety concerns about that largely wooden building grew, it was demolished in 1918 — except for the 1898 fireproof book stacks, which were incorporated into the Albert Kahn-designed replacement library, dedicated January 7, 1920. The building was renamed for President Harlan Hatcher in 1968.
Ann Arbor, MI
Built in 1913-1914 and opened to women students in 1915, Helen Newberry Residence was funded by a roughly $75,000 gift from the three children of Detroit philanthropist Helen Handy Newberry. Designed by the Detroit firm of Kahn & Wilby, it is the oldest all-female residence hall on the University of Michigan campus.
Ann Arbor, MI
Built 1917-1918 for Hoover Steel Ball Company founder Leander J. Hoover at a cost of $350,000, the French Chateau-style mansion at 2015 Washtenaw Ave was designed by Ann Arbor architect Rupert Koch. Hoover died of complications from influenza in September 1918 shortly after the home was completed. After passing through fraternities, advertising firms, and corporate owners, the property was acquired by University Bank in 2005 and serves as its headquarters.
Ann Arbor, MI
The Kempf House was built in 1853 by Henry and Mary DeWitt Bennett in the Greek Revival temple-front style, with four Doric columns. Music teachers Reuben and Pauline Kempf purchased it in 1890 and lived there for 63 years, hosting visiting luminaries including Paderewski, Victor Herbert, and Schumann-Heink. The City of Ann Arbor acquired the house in 1969, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Ann Arbor, MI
Built in 1870 by Bavarian immigrant and Western Brewery founder Peter Brehm, the Second Empire brick house at 326 W Liberty St is one of Ann Arbor's most distinctive mansard-roofed buildings. Brehm lost the brewery by 1872 and died by suicide in the house in 1873. Later owners included his son Gustav, jeweler William Arnold, the IOOF, and the Moveable Feast restaurant.
Ann Arbor, MI
Funded by a bequest from Detroit philanthropist Horace H. Rackham (who died in 1933), the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Building was designed by William E. Kapp of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. Ground was broken in May 1936 and the building was dedicated in June 1938. It sits on land in Ann Arbor that previously contained houses and, before that, the eastern edge of Michigan's first Jewish cemetery.
Grand Rapids, MI
The Amway Grand Plaza occupies the restored 1913 Pantlind Hotel, once named among America's top ten hotels in 1925. After decades of decline, the Amway Corporation purchased and rebuilt the property in 1981, joining the historic Pantlind Wing to a 29-story glass tower along the Grand River.
Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Rapids developed at a series of rapids on the Grand River that once powered the city's lumber and furniture industries. Tours Around Michigan's downtown ghost hunt focuses on the Pantlind/Amway Grand corridor and adjoining 19th-century commercial blocks, drawing on documented river-fatality records and the building histories of the Pantlind and Morton hotels.
Grand Rapids, MI
Tours Around Michigan operates the Grand Rapids Ghost Tour, a downtown walking tour and a hands-on Ghost Hunt Tour covering the city's documented paranormal accounts. Tours depart from Lyon Square at 296 Lyon NW.
Grand Rapids, MI
The Grand Rapids Ghost Tour is operated by Tours Around Michigan and runs daily, year-round, departing from Lyon Square behind the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. The two-mile route covers downtown buildings along the Grand River with embedded narratives about the city's nineteenth- and twentieth-century commercial history.
Grand Rapids, MI
The Michigan Veterans' Facility in Grand Rapids — originally the Michigan Soldiers' Home — was authorized by the Michigan Legislature in 1885 and dedicated in December 1886, with Governor Russell A. Alger presiding at the ceremony. The facility was established to care for disabled veterans of the Civil War. A $62.9 million renovation completed in 2021 modernized the residential facilities while preserving the site's historic character.
Grand Rapids, MI
The Grand Rapids Wraiths & Witches Ghost Tour is US Ghost Adventures' nightly downtown walking tour, departing from Riverwalk Promenade at 299 Lyon Street NW. The one-hour, one-mile lantern-led route covers the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, the Michigan Bell Building, the Peck Building, the Grand Rapids Public Library, Veterans Memorial Park, and the St. Cecilia Music Center.
Marquette, MI
Big Bay Point Lighthouse was constructed beginning in May 1896 and completed in October 1896. Congress authorized the light station in 1893, with $25,000 appropriated for construction. The lighthouse automated in 1944 and later opened as a Bed & Breakfast inn.
Marquette, MI
The Landmark Inn in Marquette, Michigan opened in 1930 as the Northland Hotel, built by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company during the iron-mining boom. The hotel closed in 1982 after years of decline. Team Landmark restored and reopened the property in 1995 under its current name.
Marquette, MI
Northern Michigan University was established in 1899 in Marquette, on the Lake Superior shoreline of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The John X. Jamrich Hall, a major classroom and lecture facility on campus, houses a large ground-level lecture room used for film screenings; its attached control room is a small storage space where nursing students historically recorded their names on the wall before graduation.
Marquette, MI
The Holy Family Orphanage opened in 1915 at 600 Altamont Street in Marquette, Michigan as a Catholic-run institution that housed roughly 200 children at its peak. It served its last orphan in 1967 and was abandoned in 1982. After more than three decades of vacancy, a $15.8 million rehabilitation completed in 2018 reopened the building as Grandview Marquette, a 56-unit affordable housing complex.
Marquette, MI
The building at 113 South Front Street in Marquette was built in 1886 as 'H. R. Oates Furniture / Undertaking,' a combined furniture-store-and-funeral-home — a common nineteenth-century commercial pairing because the same craftsmen built coffins and parlor furniture. The cellar served as embalming and winter-storage space for bodies awaiting spring burial. After the Oates business folded in the 1930s, the building operated as the Shamrock Bar from 1945 until being sold in 2007; it now houses Elizabeth's Chophouse.
Ada, MI
Ada Cemetery is a small township burial ground in Ada, Michigan, east of Grand Rapids. The much-circulated Ada Witch legend is geographically associated with Findlay Cemetery on 2 Mile Road NE rather than with the Ada Cemetery proper, though local retellings often conflate the two.
Ada, MI
Findlay Cemetery sits along Honey Creek Avenue in rural Ada Township, Kent County, Michigan, dating to the 1800s as one of the area's oldest burial grounds. The cemetery contains the grave of Sarah McMillan, who died of typhoid fever in 1870 at age 29 and whose name has been folklorically attached to the regional Ada Witch legend.
Ada, MI
The restaurant in Ada, Michigan opened in the late 1970s as the Thornapple Village Inn and won Grand Rapids Magazine's Restaurant of the Year award during its early years. Over the years the building has operated under multiple names, most recently as Bistro Chloe Elan and RiverHouse Ada under the Gilmore Collection.
Mackinac Island, MI
Bogan Lane Inn was built in the mid-1850s during Mackinac Island's transition from fur-trading center to fishing hub and emerging tourist destination. The structure represents residential architecture from an era when the island was rapidly developing economically and socially.
Mackinac Island, MI
Bois Blanc Island was ceded to the United States in 1795 through the Treaty of Greenville. The island's primary economic activity during the 1800s centered on lime kiln operations and timber extraction serving Mackinac Island and mainland communities. A resort community developed in the late 1800s, with a post office established in 1884.
Mackinac Island, MI
Mission Point Resort on Mackinac Island has occupied the same grounds through four distinct institutional lives: a church mission, a film production facility, Mackinac College (1966-1970), and since 1972, a resort. The college closed after a single graduating class. The land's most documented ghost — a student called Harvey — dates from the college era.
Presque Isle, MI
The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse was constructed in 1840 on a small peninsula on the western shore of Lake Huron in what is now Presque Isle County, Michigan. It served the lower Great Lakes shipping route until 1871, when it was replaced by a taller new tower nearby. The 38-foot stone tower and keeper's cottage are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Presque Isle, MI
The New Presque Isle Lighthouse, completed in 1870 on the Lake Huron shore north of Alpena, Michigan, replaced an earlier 1840 light known today as the Old Presque Isle Lighthouse. At 113 feet, it is the tallest publicly climbable lighthouse tower on the Great Lakes and operates as a museum within Presque Isle Township Park.
Traverse City, MI
The Bower's Harbor Inn estate on Old Mission Peninsula was built in the 1880s by Chicago lumberman J.W. Stickney and his wife Jennie (the name Genevieve in popular legend is a corruption). The building operated for decades as the Bowers Harbor Inn, a well-regarded restaurant and small hotel. It now operates as Mission Table, a farm-to-table restaurant, and Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales, a craft brewery, under the same roof at 13512 Peninsula Drive.
Traverse City, MI
The Northern Michigan Asylum opened in 1885 as the third state psychiatric hospital in Michigan, designed under the Kirkbride Plan by architect Gordon W. Lloyd. Renamed the Traverse City State Hospital, the institution operated until 1989; the campus was redeveloped beginning in 2002 as the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, a mixed-use district of shops, restaurants, residences, and adaptive-reuse offices.
Adrian, MI
Siena Heights University was founded in 1919 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters in Adrian, Michigan, originally as St. Joseph's College, a women's institution. It became coeducational and reorganized as Siena Heights College in 1969, achieving university status in 1998.
Algoma Township, MI
Hell's Bridge is a small iron footbridge crossing Cedar Creek on a wooded trail off Friske Drive in Algoma Township, northwest of Rockford, Michigan, in Kent County. The bridge and its surrounding woods are best known as the setting of one of Michigan's most widely circulated urban legends rather than for any documented historical event.
Algonac, MI
Morrow Road is a 2.5-mile rural road in St. Clair County, Michigan, spanning Clay and Cottrellville Townships between Algonac and Marine City. The road originated as a cow path in the nineteenth century and was later paved with two culvert crossings over small creeks. The legend associated with the road traces to the late 1800s and involves a woman identified in some accounts by the initials 'I.C.' — possibly Isabella Chartier — who reportedly disappeared with her young son during a winter night in 1893.
Atlanta, MI
Camp 8 Cabin is an abandoned structure located on Camp 8 Road in Atlanta, Montmorency County, Michigan. The cabin served as a residential dwelling in the Upper Peninsula.
Augusta, MI
Brook Lodge originated as an 1800s dairy farm and was purchased in 1895 by Dr. William Erastus Upjohn as a family summer residence. The Upjohn Company turned the estate into a corporate conference center in 1956. It closed in 2009, was sold to Michigan State University in 2010, and has cycled through several private owners since.
Berville, MI
Berville is an old settlement in Berlin Township, St. Clair County, Michigan, founded in the 1840s. Originally known as Baker's Corners, the community developed as a small rural settlement along the Pere Marquette Railroad's Almont branch, approximately thirty miles west of Port Huron.
Big Rapids, MI
The Big Rapids cinema occupies a historic theater building originally constructed as the Colonial Theatre, which opened on Michigan Avenue at Elm Street in Big Rapids. By 1930, the theater hosted Vitaphone and vaudeville performances. The facility was renamed Big Rapids Theatre by 1941 and has since operated under various cinema operators.
Borculo, MI
Borculo is a small community in Blendon Township, Ottawa County, in West Michigan. The one-room schoolhouse on Port Sheldon Street was built in 1876, later moved to its current location and rebuilt in 1908. It closed as a school in the mid-1960s, reopened as the Schoolhouse Restaurant about two decades later, and today operates as the District No. 5 Schoolhouse event venue.
Bridgeport, MI
Bridgeport High School is located in Bridgeport, Saginaw County, Michigan. The school serves the Bridgeport Area Schools district and functions as an active secondary educational facility.
Brimley, MI
Point Iroquois Lighthouse stands on the south shore of Lake Superior near Brimley, Michigan, at the entrance to the St. Marys River and the Soo Locks. The site is named for an Iroquois war party defeated by the Ojibwe in 1662; the current brick Cape Cod-style lighthouse dates to 1871 and is now operated within the Hiawatha National Forest.
Calumet, MI
The Calumet Theatre opened in 1900 in Calumet, Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The theater attracted major performers including Helena Modjeska, Sarah Bernhardt, Frank Morgan, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and John Philip Sousa. The facility remains an active cultural venue.
Canton, MI
Denton Road crosses the Lower Rouge River in Canton, in western Wayne County in the Detroit metro area. The original structure was a one-lane wooden bridge over the river on what was once an unpaved road. By the late 20th century it had become a magnet for ghost-hunters; the original bridge was replaced by the current concrete structure in 2003 when the road was reconfigured.
Cass City, MI
Crawford Road runs through a rural stretch of Tuscola County southeast of Cass City in Michigan's Thumb. The bridge that once carried the road over a small creek or drain near the Cass River has since been removed, leaving only a dirt road crossing roughly 100-200 feet south of Kelly Road. The location's notoriety comes entirely from a 19th-century folk legend rather than a documented historical event.
Charlevoix, MI
The Weathervane Restaurant at 106 Pine River Lane in Charlevoix, Michigan occupies a former grist mill dating to the 1800s. Stafford's Hospitality, the northern Michigan restaurant group, has operated the property for over fifty years. The building sits on the Pine River channel — the narrow passage connecting Lake Charlevoix to Lake Michigan — and its position made it a commercial site from the earliest settlement of the Charlevoix area.
Charlotte, MI
The Eaton Theatre opened January 7, 1931, in downtown Charlotte, Michigan, with its inaugural film 'Whoopee' starring Eddie Cantor. Designed by architect R.V. Day in the Art Deco style with a characteristic large square marquee and vertical sign, the original 750-seat single-screen cinema was expanded to two screens in 1992. It remains an operating first-run cinema.
Clinton Township, MI
Located in the woods off 18 Mile Road and Hayes Road in Clinton Township, this small cemetery contains approximately 30 burial stones dating primarily to the 1800s, representing the pioneer settlement period of Macomb County. The site reflects the region's early history during the nineteenth century.
Dearborn, MI
Greenfield Village is the outdoor portion of The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, opened to the public in 1933. Henry Ford established the 200-acre site to preserve and relocate buildings associated with American invention, industry, and rural life. The collection includes nearly 100 structures moved from their original locations across the United States.
Dearborn Heights, MI
Berwyn Elementary School was constructed in 1958 as an elementary school serving Dearborn Heights and the surrounding Wayne County community. In 1979, the City of Dearborn Heights began leasing the building from the Crestwood School District and converted it to the Berwyn Senior Recreation Center to serve the expanding senior population.
Decatur, MI
Anderson Cemetery is a small rural burial ground on 36th Street near Swift Lake, in Decatur Township, Van Buren County, roughly halfway between Marcellus and Decatur. Its enduring local notoriety comes from the burial of the Morris family, who were murdered in nearby Charleston in 1879. Charles and Esther Morris and their children were shot and killed by an intruder who then fled on a stolen family horse.
Dexter, MI
A small, long-forgotten cemetery sits near the corner of Huron River Drive and Zeeb Road in Scio Township, Washtenaw County, alongside the Huron River outside Dexter. The burial ground holds only a few stones, including one dated to 1840, and has been so neglected that nature has reclaimed much of it. The site is undeveloped, with no formal signage or maintenance.
Dowagiac, MI
The Beckwith Theatre Company in Dowagiac, Michigan, occupies a former Methodist church that served the community as a place of worship and funerals for roughly a century. The site is historically significant as the place where America's first orphan-train children arrived in September 1854. The theater company formed in January 1990 and acquired the building, originally bought from the Knights of Columbus.
East Lansing, MI
Hubbard Hall is a high-rise residence hall on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, the tallest building in the city. It houses exclusively first-year students and is part of MSU's East Neighborhood residential complex. The 12th floor of Hubbard Hall is the site of recurring campus folklore about two male apparitions and unexplained elevator behavior.
East Leroy, MI
East Leroy was settled in 1835 and became a station stop on the Michigan Central railroad branch line running from Battle Creek to Goshen, Indiana in the early twentieth century. The railroad was operational through the 1920s before eventually being abandoned, leaving behind the remnant corridor visible today.
Eau Claire, MI
Frost Cemetery, also recorded as Franklin Church Cemetery, sits beside a rural country church at the junction of Frost Road and Brush Lake (Franklin) Road in Berrien County, north of Niles and east of Eau Claire. Locally it is widely known by the nickname 'Munchkin Land.' The cemetery and adjoining church occupy an isolated stretch of countryside near Booth and Curtis lakes.
Farmington, MI
Oakwood Cemetery is a historic public cemetery owned and operated by the City of Farmington, located at 34200 Grand River Avenue in Oakland County, just east of Gill Road. The cemetery carries a state historical marker and is best known regionally for a 'gravity hill' effect near its west gate that has been featured in numerous Michigan media stories and videos.
Fennville, MI
Fennville is a city in Allegan County, Michigan, located on State Route 89 approximately eleven miles southeast of Saugatuck and thirteen miles west-northwest of Allegan. The area was settled in the mid-nineteenth century around sawmill and grist mill operations established by Benjamin Fenn, a lumberman who arrived from New York.
Fenton, MI
The Fenton Hotel was built in 1856 at 302 N Leroy Street to serve the influx of railroad travelers that transformed Fenton, Michigan from a small settlement into a regional hub. The building hosted travelers, salesmen, and local social gatherings through the 19th and early 20th centuries. It now operates as the Fenton Hotel Tavern & Grille, with a Historical State Marker recognizing its 170-year continuous presence in Genesee County.
Forester, MI
Mary Jane 'Minnie' Quay was born in May 1861 and died on April 27, 1876, when she walked to Smith's dock in Forester, Michigan and jumped into Lake Huron. An 1876 newspaper account confirmed the death. She was 15. Her grave stands in the Forester Cemetery overlooking the lake.
Forestville, MI
Forestville Beach is a publicly accessible Lake Huron beach in the village of Forestville, Sanilac County, Michigan, on the southwest shore of Lake Huron approximately 13 miles south of Harbor Beach. The surrounding coast is part of the Sanilac Shores Underwater Preserve, which protects at least 16 historic shipwrecks.
Freeland, MI
The cemetery on Dice Road in Richfield Township, Saginaw County occupies a rural stretch of mid-Michigan between Saginaw and Midland. Anna Rhodes Millerton, whose story is tied to the site, came to America from Italy after surviving an arson attack that killed her family when she was five years old. She settled in Saginaw with her aunt and later married Jonathan Millerton, a lumber worker who sailed the Great Lakes.
Gladstone, MI
The North Bluff above Gladstone, Michigan, in Delta County is home to Fernwood Perpetual Care Cemetery, a roughly 40-acre municipal burial ground owned and operated by the City of Gladstone with over 5,900 documented memorial records. The cemetery occupies elevated terrain overlooking Little Bay de Noc on Lake Michigan and reflects the settlement history of Gladstone, established in the late 19th century as a port and railroad community.
Grand Haven, MI
Lake Forest Cemetery in Grand Haven, Michigan opened in 1872 and is managed by the City's Department of Public Works. Buried here are the founders of Grand Haven, including Reverend William Montague Ferry, who established the city in 1834 and died December 30, 1867. Ferry Hill, the elevated section of the cemetery where the founding families lie, offers a view across the city he built.
Gulliver, MI
Seul Choix Point Lighthouse, built in 1895 on a rocky point of Lake Michigan's north shore, marks one of the few natural harbors of refuge along Michigan's Upper Peninsula coast. The Gulliver Historical Society now operates the keeper's house as a maritime museum.
Harrison, MI
Reinke House refers to a private family residence on Budd Lake in Harrison, Clare County, Michigan. The structure does not appear in the National Register of Historic Places or in published Michigan historical society inventories, and no public records substantiating the property's history have been located.
Hastings, MI
Historic Charlton Park is a living-history village, museum, and 300-plus-acre recreation area on Thornapple Lake near Hastings, in Barry County. A fixture of the county since 1936, it gathers period buildings from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Among them is the Bristol Inn, built in 1848 as a stagecoach stop on the route between Grand Rapids and Battle Creek.
Holland, MI
Dorr E. Felt, the Chicago inventor of the Comptometer adding machine, completed Felt Mansion in 1928 as a summer home for his wife Agnes. Agnes died of a stroke six weeks after moving in. The estate later served as a Catholic boys' school, a convent, and a Michigan State Police post before nonprofit restoration began.
Howell, MI
Opened September 7, 1907 as the Michigan State Sanatorium at Howell, the hilltop facility treated tuberculosis patients on land 1,100 feet above sea level — the highest point of the Lower Peninsula's natural watershed. It grew from 16 beds to roughly 500. After antibiotics curbed TB, it became Howell State Hospital in 1961 and Hillcrest Regional Center for the Developmentally Disabled in 1978, closing in 1982 and being demolished in 1985.
Interlochen, MI
Interlochen Center for the Arts was founded in 1928 by Joseph E. Maddy on a 1,200-acre campus in Green Lake Township, Grand Traverse County, about 10 miles southwest of Traverse City. The Grunow Theatre, a small black box venue built in the 1920s, was funded by a donation from the Grunow family, reportedly in memory of their young daughter who drowned in the lake behind the theater site.
Jackson, MI
The Michigan Theatre at 124 N. Mechanic Street in Jackson opened April 30, 1930, designed by Detroit architect Maurice Herman Finkel for W.S. Butterfield Theatres. Its Spanish Colonial Revival interior — oil paintings, wool carpets, polychrome terra cotta — made it the most lavish venue in Jackson County. It was the first air-conditioned building in downtown Jackson.
Kewadin, MI
The Oasis Red Bull Tavern sits at 7204 Cairn Highway in Kewadin, a small unincorporated community in Antrim County in northern Michigan. The building was constructed in 1932, during Prohibition and the Great Depression, and has operated as a tavern and grill for generations. It remains an operating local bar and a fixture of the small Kewadin community.
Lapeer, MI
Castaways was a lakeside restaurant and bar at 4058 Hunt Road on the shore of Lake Nepessing, southwest of Lapeer. The building, which includes a distinctive lighthouse feature, previously operated as a hotel — once simply called The Hotel — and under various businesses over the decades. Local legend holds it was also a bordello many years ago. The restaurant has since closed.
Lincoln Park, MI
Council Point Park in Lincoln Park, Michigan occupies 27 acres at the confluence of the Ecorse River's northern and southern branches before it reaches the Detroit River. On April 27, 1763, Chief Pontiac convened a council of Ottawa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi leaders at this location to plan an assault on British-held Fort Detroit — one of the most consequential gatherings in Great Lakes history.
Livonia, MI
Livonia Cemetery was established in 1836 along Farmington Road in Livonia, Michigan, serving as the primary burial ground for the developing community. The cemetery contains over 1,000 interments spanning nearly two centuries of local history, with graves dating from the nineteenth century through the present.
Mackinaw City, MI
The Mackinac Bridge, completed in 1957, spans five miles across the Straits of Mackinac and stands as one of the longest suspension bridges in the Western Hemisphere. Five workers died during its construction between 1954 and 1956. Two separate incidents in 1989 and 1997 resulted in vehicles going over the railing, one fatally.
Manistee, MI
The SS City of Milwaukee, moored at 99 Arthur Street in Manistee, is the last surviving pre-1940 Great Lakes railroad carferry. Built in 1931 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding for the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company, the vessel is a National Historic Landmark and operates as a museum, overnight B&B, and seasonal haunted attraction.
Mansfield, MI
On September 28, 1893, the Mansfield Mine near Crystal Falls in Iron County, Michigan, caved in when the Michigamme River broke through into the underground workings, drowning all 27 miners on shift. A granite memorial bearing their names was dedicated in 1976 near the site in Mansfield Township.
Marine City, MI
The Riviera Restaurant operates as a waterfront tavern at 475 South Water Street in Marine City, Michigan, overlooking the St. Clair River. The restaurant serves a casual American menu with pizza, seafood, and a full cocktail lounge, and is a longstanding fixture of the small downstream-of-Port-Huron community.
Marshall, MI
Colonel Andrew Mann built a brick stagecoach inn in Marshall, Michigan in 1835, then named the Mann Hotel. It became the oldest brick building in Calhoun County and the oldest continuously operating hotel in Michigan. The inn served travelers on the Chicago-Detroit stagecoach route before the railroad arrived in the 1840s. The basement contains a hidden room built to shelter freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad.
Memphis, MI
Memphis Cemetery is a small rural graveyard on M-19 (Van Dyke Road) in St. Clair County, Michigan. Its principal curiosity is the Miller family monument: a large black marble sphere on a granite pedestal erected in 1903 in honor of twins Eli and Paul Miller, one of whom died that same year.
Metamora, MI
Metamora Township was formed in 1838 from the eastern half of Hadley Township in Lapeer County, Michigan. Named after the character Metamora from an 1829 theatrical production, the township developed as a lumbering and agricultural community. Blood Road itself was named after Norman B. Blood, a township supervisor in the 1850s.
Midland, MI
NCG Midland Cinemas is an eight-screen multiplex at 1600 Eastman Ave in Midland, Michigan, that opened May 13, 1992. The theater is currently operating and reviews have been positive following a recent remodel. Staff working after hours have reported unexplained phenomena including toilets flushing without use, figures in the seats, and a bearded man in overalls.
Monroe Center, MI
Monroe Center Cemetery is a rural burial ground in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, south of Traverse City. The surrounding area was historically Odawa territory, and the cemetery sits within a landscape shaped by centuries of Odawa presence and the forced assimilation policies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Mount Morris, MI
The property at 7092 North Dort Highway in Mount Morris, Michigan, operated for decades as Auto City Junk Yard and is now home to Rat Tech Engine Service. A previous owner of the salvage business was murdered on the property in a case later featured on Court TV.
Mount Pleasant, MI
Mill Pond Park is a 90-acre wooded wetland park in central Mount Pleasant, Michigan, bordered by Broadway and High Streets with the Chippewa River running through its full length. Historic dams at the site once powered a sawmill and provided early electricity to the village. Today the park provides barrier-free trails, a canoe landing, a 400-foot beginner rapids course, a swimming beach, and a fishing deck.
New Lothrop, MI
Cummin Cemetery is a small rural burial ground on N. New Lothrop Road in Hazelton Township, Shiawassee County, set in wooded farmland near Misteguay and Rush creeks. It is known locally by several names — Cummin (or Cummings), Juddville, New Lothrop, and Lennon Cemetery — reflecting the small communities it has served. It carries little notable recorded history beyond its function as a township cemetery, and its reputation today is almost entirely folkloric.
Niles, MI
Morris Chapel in Berrien Township, Michigan, was built in 1867 by the local Methodist Episcopal Society, which had organized in 1840. The building is named for Bishop Thomas A. Morris. It sits at the intersection of Pucker Street and Chapel Road, approximately six miles north of Niles, with a traditional graveyard on the grounds. The chapel has been in continuous use and has hosted weddings on the property since 1938.
North Muskegon, MI
Northshore Hospital in North Muskegon, Michigan, was built in the 1920s as a tuberculosis sanatorium and later housed mental patients. After funding shortfalls forced its closure, the building stood abandoned for years before being demolished in the early 2000s. The site on Holton Road is now a vacant, fenced lot.
North Street, MI
The Dorsey House at 6008 Beard Road in Clyde Township, St. Clair County occupies the site of a stagecoach stop and halfway house that dates to 1847, when it served travelers along the route eleven miles northwest of Port Huron. The original building was demolished in 1995 and replaced with the current structure, which continues as a restaurant, whiskey bar, and banquet facility. The building's informal name references the Dorsey family associated with the site.
Nunica, MI
Nunica Cemetery in Ottawa County, Michigan, was established in 1883 to serve the small village of Nunica, which had been founded in 1872 along the Grand River corridor. The cemetery holds Civil War veterans, victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic, and several generations of West Michigan farming families.
Ontonagon, MI
The Ontonagon Lighthouse marks the mouth of the Ontonagon River on Lake Superior. The original 1853 tower was replaced in 1866-1867 with the current 1.5-story cream brick structure with attached square light tower. Decommissioned in 1964, the lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and is operated as a museum by the Ontonagon County Historical Society.
Paradise, MI
Whitefish Point Light has operated continuously since 1861, the oldest active lighthouse on Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, opened by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in 1985, occupies the restored 1923 surfboat station and houses the recovered bell of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, lost with all 29 crew on November 10, 1975.
Petoskey, MI
The Perry Hotel was built in 1899 by Dr. Norman J. Perry at 100 Lewis Street in Petoskey, Michigan. It is the only one of twenty luxury hotels operating in Petoskey at the turn of the 20th century that remains standing and operating as a hotel. Stafford's Hospitality purchased the property in 1989 and undertook extensive restoration. The hotel now operates as Stafford's Perry Hotel and is recognized as a historic landmark of northern Michigan.
Pontiac, MI
Opened in 1878 as the Eastern Michigan Asylum, the Pontiac institution was designed by Michigan State Capitol architect Elijah Myers. Renamed Pontiac State Hospital in 1911 and Clinton Valley Center in 1973, it peaked at about 3,100 patients in the 1950s. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it was closed in 1997 and demolished in 2000; a subdivision now occupies the site.
Port Huron, MI
McMorran Place opened January 10, 1960, designed by Michigan architect Alden B. Dow and funded by a donation from the McMorran family in memory of Henry McMorran (1844–1929). The 1,169-seat auditorium anchors downtown Port Huron's arts district. The complex also houses an ice arena and two rental event spaces.
Reed City, MI
Pompie's (also known as Pompeii's or Pompeiis) is a pizza restaurant at 113 S Chestnut Street in downtown Reed City, Michigan, operating in a building that possibly dates to 1871 as the Lonsbury and Crocker general store — a year before Reed City itself was platted in 1872. The building has housed various commercial tenants since the post-Civil War era.
Rockford, MI
The Rockford Dam restrains the Rogue River in the city of Rockford, Michigan, with the original dam dating to 1844. The dam and overlook are part of Rockford's downtown riverfront, connecting to the city's parks and the White Pine Trail.
Roscommon, MI
Pere Cheney Cemetery is the only surviving feature of the lumber-era town of Pere Cheney, established in 1873 in Crawford County, Michigan, on a Michigan Central Railroad rail stop and sawmill site. The town reached 1,500 residents in the late 1870s and briefly served as the Crawford County seat before being devastated by a diphtheria epidemic. By 1917 only 18 residents remained; the town was effectively abandoned shortly after.
Saint Clair Shores, MI
Lake Front Park is a Grosse Pointe Woods municipal park on Lake St. Clair, located just past the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House on Lakeshore Drive. The original bathhouse was converted into an Activities Building in 2000. The park serves Grosse Pointe Woods residents exclusively and closes nightly at 11pm.
Schoolcraft, MI
Harrison Cemetery is a small pioneer burial ground in Prairie Ronde Township near Schoolcraft, in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It is named for Bazel Harrison, who with his wife Martha and their large family became the first permanent settlers of Kalamazoo County, arriving from Ohio in November 1828. Both Bazel and Martha are buried here.
Shepherd, MI
Shepherd, Michigan is a village located in Coe Township, Isabella County. The community was first settled by lumberman Isaac Shepherd and others along the Salt River. It was formally platted in 1866 and given a post office named Salt River in 1857. The village had a population of 1,469 at the 2020 census.
South Haven, MI
Hawks Head Cemetery, more formally McDowell Cemetery, is a small rural burial ground at 71st Street and 107th Avenue in Casco Township, north of South Haven and less than a mile from the Lake Michigan shoreline. It is one of three cemeteries maintained by Casco Township. Its modern reputation rests almost entirely on a single grave marked only 'Flora' and the legend that has grown around it.
South Rockwood, MI
Riverside Cemetery is a village-operated burial ground on S Huron River Drive in South Rockwood, Berlin Township, Monroe County, between I-75 and Telegraph Road. It serves the small Monroe County community of South Rockwood. The cemetery has accumulated local ghost folklore and has been the subject of paranormal investigation and regional media attention.
St Clair, MI
The Murphy Inn at 505 Clinton Avenue in St. Clair, Michigan is one of the oldest continuously operating inns in the state, built in 1836 as the Farmer's Home — a stopping point for horse traders and riverboat passengers on the St. Clair River. The building was renamed the Sheaffer Inn in 1937, then acquired by the Murphy family who added the Irish pub and renovated the seven guest rooms. It operates today as Murphy Inn with an Irish pub and bed-and-breakfast accommodations.
St. Clair, MI
Puttygut Bridge carries Puttygut Road over the Belle River in St. Clair County, Michigan, roughly seven miles southwest of the city of St. Clair. The bridge and surrounding area are the site of a local legend involving a drunk driver who lost his truck in the river during a flood. Neither the driver nor the vehicle were ever recovered, according to the tale.
Stronach, MI
The Old Stronach Road bridge crosses the Little Manistee River near Stronach, a small community in Manistee County, northern Michigan. The area was devastated by the Great Michigan Fire of October 8, 1871 — the same firestorm night that burned Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and Chicago — which destroyed much of the surrounding region. A small, old cemetery sits nearby down the road.
Taylor, MI
Taylor's Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery was platted in 1884, incorporating remains dating to the 1840s from earlier private family cemeteries. Renamed West Mound Cemetery in 1923 for the large sand hill on the site, it holds over 3,200 graves. Peter Coan, Taylor's first landowner, is among those interred there.
Trenton, MI
In the late 1800s, businessman Austin Church — a former owner of the Sibley Quarry and associated with the Arm & Hammer brand — built a riverside mansion in Trenton, Michigan. The Church family donated the property in 1943, and it was converted into Riverside Osteopathic Hospital in 1944. The hospital closed in 2002 and the building was undergoing demolition as of 2023.
Troy, MI
Camp Ticonderoga is a restaurant located in a converted family home on Rochester Road in Troy, Oakland County, Michigan. The building originally served as a residential dwelling.
Warren, MI
Norman J. Halmich Park occupies 80 acres in Warren, Michigan, at 13 Mile Road and Ryan Road. The property traces to the 1850s when German immigrant families, including the Charles Halmich family, operated a cattle farm on the land. The city of Warren purchased the property in 1956 — chosen over a proposed Detroit airport site — and developed it as the city's largest park.
Wayne, MI
The State-Wayne Theater (operating name 'State Wayne' and historically referred to locally as the Palace) opened in December 1946 as an art deco single-auditorium movie palace built by Wayne Amusements. The 1,500-seat theater was designed in fireproof brick and cinder block. It operates today as a Phoenix Theatres cinema.
West Bloomfield, MI
Green Lake in West Bloomfield Township sits at the center of what was once a thousand-acre estate owned by automobile entrepreneur Walter E. Flanders in the 1910s. After Flanders moved to Virginia in 1919, the Aviation Country Club bought the estate in 1920 and used the former Flanders garage as a clubhouse. The Green Lake Association purchased the clubhouse in 1949.
Westland, MI
Westland Meadows is a residential manufactured-home community in Westland, Michigan, situated adjacent to the former Eloise Hospital complex. The Eloise complex began in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse, evolved into a 902-acre, 75-building campus housing up to 10,000 patients at its peak, and closed its general hospital in 1984. The Eloise Cemetery, where roughly 7,100 unclaimed patients are buried in numbered graves, lies a short distance away on Henry Ruff Road.
Whitehall, MI
The White River Light Station was built in 1875 on a narrow peninsula separating White Lake from Lake Michigan. Captain William Robinson served as keeper for 47 years until his 1919 death at age 87. The Coast Guard decommissioned the light in 1960 and the station reopened as a museum in 1970.
Ypsilanti, MI
The Starkweather Home at 130 N. Huron Street in Ypsilanti was built in 1858 by Edwin Mills and later occupied by the Starkweather family. Upon her death, Mary Ann Starkweather donated the property to the Ladies Library Association in 1890, where it operated as a public library until 1964, when it was converted into office space.