• Music House Museum, Attraction: Late 1800s farm complex including re-created general store, saloon, lyric theatre, & candy store. Displays of music boxes, nickelodeons, & organs, $

• Thunderbay Underwater Preserve, Attraction: 116 shipwrecks

• Walter P. Chrysler Museum (Exit 78 off I-78), Attraction: Personal history of Walter P. Chrysler & the Chrysler Corporation, $

• Fort Custer State Recreation Area, Attraction: Camping

• Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park (13 mi SE of Bad Axe), Attraction: 300 to 1000 year old American Indian rock carvings

• Kellogg's Cereal City USA (Exit 98B off I-94), Attraction: Learn about the history of cereal, $

• Yankee Air Museum (Exit 190 off I-94), Attraction: History of the Willow Run B-24 Liberator production facilities plus 25 aircraft, $

• Brethren Heritage Museum, Attraction: Brethren area history, ice house, store, historical items

• Cheboygan Crib Lighthouse, Attraction: 35-ft lighthouse
• Cheboygan County Museum, Attraction: History of Cheboygan, lumbering, fishing, farming, Indian artifacts
• Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw, Attraction: Home port for the icebreaker Mackinaw, 0$

• Chelsea Milling, Attraction: Factory tour, watch Jiffy Mixes made, 0$
• Chelsea Teddy Bear Company (in Clock Tower Building), Attraction: Headquarters & factory store, 0$

• Lionel Model Trains Factory Tour (Exit 243 off I-94), Attraction: Model train display with over 16 trains on over 1,000 ft of track, 0$

• Coopersville Farm Museum, Attraction: Celebrates the contributions of agriculture
• Coopersville & Marne Railway, Attraction: Themed passenger train rides

Dearborn [SE]

• Automotive Hall of Fame, Attraction: Dedicated to the men & women of the automotive industry, $

• Dearborn Historical Museum, Attraction: Farm equipment, wagons, buggies, & more, 0$

• Ford Rouge Factory Tour, Attraction: History of the Rouge manufacturing facility, up close look at a working factory,

• Henry Ford's Estate, Attraction: Fair Lane, Henry Ford's home & estate from 1915 to 1947, $

• Greenfield Village Museum, Attraction: More than 80 historic buildings from 1700s & 1800s, $$

• Henry Ford Museum, Attraction: Largest indoor-outdoor museum in U.S. spanning over 300 years of American history, $$

• Detroit Historical Museum, Attraction: Lifestyle changes of the typical American from 1701 to the 1900s, $
• Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, Attraction: Birthplace of the Model T, only example of an early Detroit auto factory that is open to visitors
• GM World, Attraction: Automobile showroom housing 35 GM production & vintage cars, video presentations, 0$
• Tuskegee Airman National Museum, Attraction: Memorabilia & history relating to WWII African American squadron, 0$

• SS Keewatin, Attraction: One of the last of the classic Great Lakes steamships built in 1907, $

• Michigan Railroad History Museum, Attraction: Railroad artifacts & library, 0$

Flint [SE]

• Alfred P. Sloan Museum, Attraction: displays covering area history from fur trading, pioneer life, carriage manufacturer, & the General Motors Buick automobile boom, $

• Crossroads Village (Exit 13 off I-475 NE of Flint), Attraction: 1800s village with over 30 buildings including blacksmith shop, cider mill, sawmill, gristmill, general store, school, Huckleberry Railroad, $$

• General Motors (Buick), Attraction: Factory tour, 0$

• Huckleberry Railroad, Attraction: Steam powered Baldwin locomotive with antique passenger cars, $$ (included with Crossroads Village admission)

Frankenmuth [SE]

• Bavarian Inn, Attraction: German food

• Bavarian Festival Grounds

• Ber-Wa-Ga-Na Campground, Attraction: Camping

• Bronner's Christmas Boutique (1 mi S of Frankenmuth), Attraction: More than 50,000 Christmas ornaments, lights, nativity scenes, & decorations year round, light display every evening, 0$

• Frankenmuth Historical Museum, Attraction: Area German ancestry & history, $

• Zehnder's Restaurant, Attraction: Large family restaurant, family-style meals

• Maritime Museum at the Sleeping Bear Point Coast Guard Station (1 mi W of Glen Haven), Attraction: Maritime history of the area, $

• Tri-Cities Historical Museum, Attraction: Displays about the railroad, shipping, & lumber industries plus local history, 0$

• Frederick Meijer Gardens [Exit 38 off I-96), Attraction: 125-acre gardens & sculpture park, $
• Gerald R Ford Museum, Attraction: Memorabilia related to our 38th president
• Meyer May House, Attraction: Frank Lloyd Wright designed house

• Wellington Farm Park, Attraction: Living history farm depicting life during the Great Depression, sawmill, blacksmith shop, gristmill, summer kitchen

• Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Attraction: 60-room mansion, $

• Historic Charlton Park Village Museum (5 mi SE of Hastings), Attraction: Re-created 1900s rural Midwestern village with 16 buildings, 0$

• Gilmore Car Museum, Attraction: More than 175 vintage autos in 8 restored antique barns, $

Holland [SW]

• Cappon House & Settlers House Museum, Attraction: Contrast in style of the large mansion and the small settlers house, $

• De Klomp Wooden Shoe & Delftware Factory, Attraction: Wooden shoe carving & manufacture of Delftware

• DeZwain (the Swan), Attraction: Authentic Dutch windmill

• Dutch Village (1 mi N of SR21 on US 31), Attraction: Canals, gardens, windmills, museums, $

• Original Wooden Shoe factory tour, $

• The Holland Museum, Attraction: Early settlement of the city of Holland, historical collections, $

• Veldheer Tulip Gardens (3 mi N of Holland on US 31), Attraction: More than 275 varieties of tulips & daffodils during May, other flowers rest of summer, $

• Windmill Island, Attraction: Miniature Dutch village, operating DeZwain (the Swan) Dutch windmill, $

• Huron City Museums (on SR25), Attraction: Restored buildings including a general store, log cabin, church, carriage shed, inn, barns, & more, $

• Stagecoach Stop, U.S.A., Attraction: Re-created 1800s village with a general store, trading post, saloons, print shop, ice cream parlor, & bank, $$

• Ella Sharp Museum, Attraction: 1800s farmstead life including Victorian house, pioneer log house, barn with 1800s carriages, one-room schoolhouse, $

• The Bottle House Museum, Attraction: House built with over 60,000 soft-drink bottles, includes items relating to lumbering, farming, homemaking, railroads

Kalamazoo [SW]

• Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum (Exit 78 off I-94), Attraction: Aircraft ranging from vintage to modern aircraft, many restored & operating, $$

• Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Attraction: Science & history exhibits, $

Lansing [SE]

• Carl G. Fenner Nature Center, Attraction: 4 mi nature trails, herb garden butterfly garden, 0$

• Michigan Library & Historical Center, Attraction: State history from prehistoric times to the 2000s, re-created walk-through copper mine, one-room school, 1920s street, 0$

• R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, Attraction: History of transportation from 1883 to present, antique vehicles & automotive memorabilia including first Oldsmobile built in 1897, $

• Historic White Pine Village (3 mi SW of Ludington), Attraction: Re-constructed community of 22 1850s buildings on Lake Michigan including blacksmith shop, courthouse, hardware store, fire hall, chapel, & schoolhouse, lumbering museum, $
• Ludington State Park, Attraction: 347 campsites, hiking, $$

Mackinac Island [NW]

3 mi by 2 mi island accessible only by boat from St Ignace or Mackinaw City, transportation only via horse-drawn carriage, bicycle, or walking

• Carriage tour, Attraction: Narrated 105-minute tour to Island's scenic & historic points, $$

• Fort Mackinac, Attraction: Restored 1700s & 1800s British & American military outpost, $

Mackinaw City [NW]

See Mackinac Island, ferry departure point to island

• Colonial Michilimackinac, Attraction: Fort occupied by French, British, & American forces, costumed re-enactments, $

• Historic Mill Creek (3 mi SE of Mackinaw City on US23), Attraction: 1700s industrial complex, water-powered sawmill, $

• Mackinaw Bridge Museum, Attraction: Artifacts & history of building the Mackinac Bridge, 0$

• Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, Attraction: 1892 lighthouse reminiscent of a medieval castle, light guided ships through the Straits from 1883 to 1957

• Round Island Lighthouse (offshore), Attraction: 1892 lighthouse

Manistee [NW]

Former lumbering boomtown on Lake Michigan, once had more millionaires per capita than any city in America

• Manistee County Historical Museum, Attraction: Displays of 1885 drugstore, $

• See Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore (35 mi N of Manistee on Hwy22)

• SS City of Milwaukee, Attraction: Railroad car ferry

• Marilla Historical Museum, Attraction: Historical buildings & artifacts

• Silver Lake State Park (off US31), Attraction: 1873 Little Sable Point Lighthouse, sand dunes, swimming, fishing, $

Midland [SE]

• Dow Gardens, Attraction: 600 species of flowers & shrubs, $

• Herbert H. Dow Historical Museum, Attraction: History of Dow chemical, steam engine, $

Monroe [SE]

• Monroe County Historical Museum, Attraction: History of the General George A. Custer family plus local history, $

• Navarre-Anderson Trading Post & Martha Barker Country Store Museum, Attraction: Oldest wooden residence in Michigan furnished as it appeared in 1797, country store displays items dating from 1900, 0$

• River Raisin Battlefield Visitor Center, Attraction: One of the largest engagements of the War of 1812, 0$

• The Museum of Cultural & Natural History, Attraction: Displays explore human & natural history, 0$
• Ziibiwing Center, Attraction: History & culture of the Great Lakes Anishinabe Indians

Muskegon [SW]

• Gillette Sand Dune Visitor Center, Attraction: History & ecology of sand dunes plant & animal life, $

• Great Lakes Naval Memorial & Museum, Attraction: USS Silversides, World War II submarine, $

• Hackley & Hume Historic Site, Attraction: Homes of lumber barons, $

• Muskegon County Museum, Attraction: Displays of Michigan's lumber industry & fur trade, 0$

• SS Milwaukee Clipper National Historic Landmark & Museum, Attraction: Guided tours of 1903 Great Lakes passenger ship

• Muskegon State Park, Attraction: Camping

• Meridian Historical Village, Attraction: Slice of 1800s settlers life, 6 historical buildings, one-room schoolhouse, farmhouse, barn, general store, inn

• Old Mission General Store, Attraction:  1840s store with antiques, food, & more
• Old Mission Point Light, Attraction: 1870 lighthouse

• Little Traverse History Museum, Attraction:  Odawa Indian artifacts, area history plus an Ernest Hemingway exhibit, $

• Plymouth Historical Museum, Attraction: 15,000 sq ft museum traces the history of early Plymouth

• Old Rugged Cross Church, Attraction: Methodist Episcopal Church where The Old Rugged Cross hymn was first sung in 1913 during a revival meeting

• Huron City Museums (8 mi E of Port Austin), Attraction: Restored 1880s lumber town, $

• Lighthouse County Park (5 mi N of Port Hope), Attraction: Camping on shore of Lake Huron, $$

Port Huron [NE]

• Huron Lightship Museum, Attraction: Only lightship on the Great Lakes, decommissioned in 1970, $

• Port Huron Museum, Attraction: Trace 300 years of local history via American Indian relics, marine items, a pioneer log house, Thomas Edison memorabilia, $

• Thomas Edison Depot Museum, Attraction: Re-created displays focus on Edison's invention & laboratory, $

Presque Isle [NE]

• Old Lighthouse Park & Museum, Attraction: Restored 1840 lighthouse, $

• New Presque Isle Lighthouse, Attraction: 113-ft lighthouse built in 1870

• Wolverine World Wide (Hush Puppies), Attraction: Factory tour, 0$

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore [NW]

Sand dunes, 480-ft cliffs over Lake Michigan, ghost forests, $

• Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, Attraction: 7.6-mi scenic drive that overlooks South & North Manitou islands

• McCourtie Estate, Attraction: Concrete sculptures that look like wood carving

• Michigan Maritime Museum (Exit 20 off I-196), Attraction: History of boats, boat builders, & fishermen of the Great Lakes, $

• Tawas Point State Park (Hwy23), Attraction: Tawas Point Lighthouse

• Music House Museum (8 mi N of Traverse City), Attraction: Antique automated music machines, $

• Coe Rail Scenic Train, Attraction: 1-hr train rides in vintage railroad cars, $

• Waterloo Farm Museum, Attraction: Mid 1800s farm, brick farmhouse with furnishings, granary, blacksmith's shop, barn, log cabin, bakehouse, $

• Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection & Miller Motors Hudson, Attraction: Housed in the last Hudson dealership, museum contains more than 35 original & restored cars including Hudson memorabilia, $

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