Oddities and Rarities Michigan Book
Each of these road trips leads to a destination with an unusual feature. Some are unexplained or extremely rare artifacts. Some are architectural, some are natural formations, and some are manmade mysteries.
The Heart of La Branche is said to be an ancient meteor. The Grand Victorian is a mansion created out of love for a woman. The MacIntosh Stone is ancient and is covered with strange carvings.
All the oddities in this book are real and most are easy to find, so you can check them out yourself.
Table of Contents
A Palace – A Fickle Heart ….….. 1
Bear Cave ….….. 5
Bottle House ….….. 9
Burnt Bluff Pictographs ….….. 13
Cardiff Giant ….….. 17
Circle of Stones ….….. 23
Cornish Pump ….….. 27
Eben Ice Caves ….….. 29
Glowing Tombstones ….….. 33
Gravity Mystery ….….. 35
Haunted Mansion ….….. 39
Heart of La Branche ….….. 41
Hidden Treasures Route 60 ….….. 45
Holes in the Woods ….….. 51
Humongous Fungus ….….. 55
Idlewild Revisited ….….. 57
Keweenaw Wall ….….. 59
Lavender Labyrinth ….….. 63
Lignum Vitae ….….. 65
MacIntosh Stone ….….. 69
Magnetic Healing Springs ….….. 77
Michigan’s Boot Hill Cemetery ….….. 81
Minden Bog ….….. 85
Monarch Butterfly Migration ….….. 87
Octagon Barn ….….. 91
Oddity at Negwegon ….….. 93
Oddity at St. Ignace ….….. 99
Oddity at Thunder Bay ….….. 103
Pestilence House ….….. 107
Sanilac Petroglyphs ….….. 111
Shrine of the Pines ….….. 115
Speeder Cars ….….. 119
Story in the Stones ….….. 121
Tombstones ….….. 125
Treasure in Capac ….….. 131
Treasure in Hart ….….. 135
Treasure in Mecosta ….….. 137
Treasure in Manton ….….. 139
Treasure in Saline ….….. 141
Two Ghost Towns ….….. 143
Two Towers ….….. 147
Wreck of the Ellinwood ….….. 151
Yooper Mathematics ….….. 153
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