Michigan
436 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Cadillac at the Straits, The French Founding of Detroit, Seventeen Oh One
- Copper and Iron, The Upper Peninsula's Mineral Age
- Gitche Gumee, The Great Lakes and the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Hitsville U.S.A., Motown and the Sound of Young America
- Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat, The Flint Sit-Down Strike
- The Horseless Carriage Becomes an Industry, Michigan and the Automobile
- The Italian Hall Disaster, Christmas Eve, Nineteen Thirteen
- The Mitten and the U.P., What It Means to Be a Michigan State
- The Soo Locks, Gateway Between Two Oceans of Fresh Water
- The Three Fires, Anishinaabe Nations of the Great Lakes
- The Toledo War, Statehood, a Bloodless Border, and a Strip of Land
- White Pine and Clear-Cuts, Michigan's Lumber Century
Near Ann Arbor
- Albert Wheeler and the Civil Rights Reckoning
- Anishinaabe Land: Before Ann Arbor
- Belleville, Michigan
- Brighton: From Ore Creek to Livingston County's Biggest City
- Chelsea, Michigan
- Cobblestone Farm and Museum , Ann Arbor
- Depot Town: Underground Railroad to Comeback Story
- Depot Town: Ypsilanti's Railroad Quarter
- Eastern Michigan University: The First Normal School West of the Appalachians
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
- Hill Auditorium and the Sound of Ann Arbor
- John Sinclair, the Free John Rally, and the Five-Dollar Fine
- Kensington Metropark: The Dam That Made a Lake
- Kerrytown and the Farmers Market
- Michigan Stadium: The Big House
- Nichols Arboretum and the Peony Collection
- Novi: What's in a Name?
- The Big House
- The Founding on the River
- The Huron River Mills
- The Michigan Central Depot
- The Teach-In: Where the Anti-War Movement Learned to Speak
- The Underground Railroad in Ann Arbor
- The University Comes to Town
- Willow Run and the Arsenal of Democracy
- Willow Run: A Bomber Every 63 Minutes
- Willow Run: One Bomber Every Sixty-Three Minutes
- Wixom: From Sibley's Corners to Suburb
- Women in Medicine: The University's Radical Decision
- Ypsilanti Water Tower: The Accidental Icon
- Ypsilanti Water Tower: The World's Most Famous Water Tower
- Ypsilanti: Named for a Greek War Hero Mid-Revolution
Near Charlevoix
- Castle Farms
- Cherries, Apples, and the Fruit Belt
- Earl Young and the Mushroom Houses
- James Strang, King of Beaver Island
- The Beaver Island Ferry
- The Belvedere and Chicago Clubs
- The Depot, the Railroad, and the Boomtown
- The Name, the Jesuit, and the Odawa
- The Pine River Channel and the Drawbridge
- The Venetian Festival
- The Weathervane and the Nine-Ton Boulder
Near Detroit
- Arab Dearborn and the First Arab American Museum
- Bagley Inn: Michigan's First Tavern Keeper
- Battle of the Overpass
- Belle Isle and the Olmsted Plan
- Black Bottom, Paradise Valley, and the Highway That Erased Them
- Brownstown Township, Michigan
- Brush Park: Detroit's Little Paris
- Canada in Sight: The Underground Railroad at Detroit
- Clarence Darrow and the Right to Defend Your Home
- Comerica Park and the Detroit Tigers
- Dearborn: Where the Rouge Plant Became the Heart of Arab America
- Detroit Queer History: The Gap in the Archive
- Detroit's Civil War Veterans Hall
- Detroit's Music Hall
- Detroit's Oldest Neighborhood
- Diego Rivera and the Murals They Tried to Destroy
- Ecorse, Michigan: Riviere aux Ecorces
- Fair Lane and the Making of UM, Dearborn
- Farmington: Quakers from New York
- Flat Rock: Ford's Lamp Town on the Huron River
- Flight 253: The Underwear Bomber and What Came Next
- Florence Ballard and the Supremes
- Ford Field and the Detroit Lions
- Gibraltar, Michigan
- Governor Alex Groesbeck: The Road Builder
- Hamtramck, Michigan
- Hamtramck: From Dodge Main to the First Muslim-Majority City Council
- Hazen Pingree's Potato Patches
- Henry Ford's Argument With History
- Highland Park, Michigan
- Hitsville U.S.A.: The House Where Motown Was Born
- Hitsville U.S.A.: The Sound of Young America
- Hudson Motor: The Car Company That Launched a Thousand Getaways
- Joe Louis and the Bronze Fist
- Joe Louis: The Brown Bomber from Black Bottom
- Lee Plaza: Ruins and Resurrection
- Madison Heights: Metro Detroit's Little Saigon
- Michigan Central Station: Ruin, Symbol, Revival
- Michigan Central Station: The Depot That Died and Came Back
- Michigan Central Station: The Rise, the Ruin, and the Return
- Midnight: The Underground Railroad Terminus
- Most Holy Redeemer: Southwest Detroit's Cathedral Parish
- Ossian Sweet: The House on Garland Avenue
- Packard: America's Finest Car, Born in Ohio, Crowned in Detroit
- Pewabic Pottery and Mary Chase Perry Stratton
- Piquette Avenue: Where the Model T Was Born
- River Rouge, Michigan: Steel and the River
- River Rouge: The Moving Line and the Modern World
- Rockwood, Michigan: Mills on the Huron
- Rosedale Gardens: A Depression-Era Suburb Frozen in Brick
- Rosedale Park: Detroit's Streetcar Suburb That Held On
- Sainte Anne de Détroit: The Parish That Outlasted Empires
- Sainte Anne de Détroit: Three Centuries of the Oldest Parish
- Techno: Made in Detroit, Heard in Berlin
- The 1943 Race Riot
- The Algiers Motel
- The Algiers Motel: Three Men, One Night
- The Ambassador Bridge: World Record, World Trade, and One Man's Empire
- The Automotive Hall of Fame
- The Bankruptcy: Art, Pensions, and the Grand Bargain
- The Dearborn Inn: The World's First Airport Hotel
- The Dearborn Inn: World's First Airport Hotel
- The Five Dollar Day and Who It Was For
- The Freer House: A Detroit Mansion That Built a Smithsonian Museum
- The Hecker Castle
- The Heidelberg Project: Polka Dots on Devastation
- The Hunger March, 1932
- The Leland: Detroit's Oldest Downtown Hotel
- The Moving Line: January, Nineteen Fourteen
- The North Wall: Canada's Vietnam Memorial
- The Painting That Catholic Detroit Wanted Destroyed
- The Piquette Plant: Where the Model T Was Born
- The Redford Theatre: Detroit's Japanese Garden Under a Starlit Sky
- The Saginaw Trail: Michigan's First Highway
- The Scarab Club: Detroit's Artists Left Their Mark on the Ceiling
- The Sweet Trials: A Detroit Doctor Defends His Home
- The Water Shutoffs and the United Nations Statement
- Three Fires Before Le Détroit
- Tiger Stadium: The Corner
- Twelve Hours on Twelfth Street
- Twelve Hours on Twelfth Street: The 1967 Rebellion
- Twenty-Five Black Dead on Belle Isle Bridge
- Uniroyal Giant Tire
- Wayne State: The University the Civil War Built
- West Vernor: Where Southwest Detroit Found Its Voice
- What Berry Gordy Built at Two Six Four Eight
- What Interstate Three Seventy-Five Replaced
- Woodbridge: Detroit's Victorian Streetcar Suburb
Near Flint
- Chevy in the Hole
- Durand Union Station: Railroad City, USA
- Durand: Forty-Two Trains a Day Through Michigan's Railroad Capital
- Environmental Justice and a Century of Pollution
- Factory One, Where General Motors Was Born
- Flint's Capitol Theatre: A Roman Garden Under the Stars
- Floyd McCree and the Open Housing Fight
- Grand Blanc, Michigan
- Kettering University, Where GM Trained Its Engineers
- Kettering University: GM's School Becomes Its Own
- Kettering University: The School That GM Built
- Lapeer: Stone, French, and Michigan's Oldest Courthouse
- Roger and Me, the Plant Closings, and the Long Fall
- Sloan Museum, Flint's Automotive Memory
- The Fenton House Hotel
- The Flint Cultural Center and What a City Builds for Itself
- The Flint Water Crisis
- The Great Migration and Saint John Street
- The Lumber Baron and His Grandson
- The River That Named a City
- The Sit-Down Strike, Fisher Body Plant Number One
- Vehicle City, The Arches, and the Boom Years
- Whaley House, Flint's Victorian Showcase
Near Frankenmuth
- Birch Run, Michigan
- Bridgeport, Michigan: Cass River Crossing
- Bronner's, the World's Largest Christmas Store
- Castle Museum of Saginaw County History
- Clio, Michigan
- Frankenmuth: Courage of the Franconians
- How Frankenmuth Became Bavarian
- Oktoberfest and Bavarian Festival
- Saint Lorenz and the Log Church
- Sugar Beets and the Farm Country
- The Chippewa Mission and Bethany
- The Frankenmuth Brewery
- The Frankenmuth Woolen Mill
- The Glockenspiel and the Pied Piper
- The Holz Brucke Covered Bridge
- The World Famous Chicken Dinner
- Zilwaukee, Michigan
Near Grand Haven
- Coast Guard City USA and the Loss of the Escanaba
- Coopersville: Timber Town Turned Farm Town
- Duncan Woods and the Grand Trunk Depot
- Muskegon Heights: The Planned Industrial City
- Muskegon: Lumber Queen of the World
- Norton Shores: Incorporated to Stay Independent
- Nunica: Clay Earth and Crockery Creek
- Rix Robinson and the Fur Trade
- The Cross-Lake Ferries to Milwaukee
- The Grand River, Michigan's Longest
- The Interurban and the Resort Era
- The Lumber Era and the Lost Cutler House
- The Odawa and Chief Cobmoosa
- The Sand Dunes and Grand Haven State Park
- The Story and Clark Piano Factory
- The World's Largest Musical Fountain at Dewey Hill
Near Grand Rapids
- ArtPrize and the Reinvention of a Rust Belt City
- Beer City Before and After Prohibition
- Calvin University: Faith, Dutch Roots, and a Michigan Reformation
- Comstock Park: The Congressman's Mill Town
- East Grand Rapids: The Lake That Built a Suburb
- Eastown and the Wealthy Street Corridor
- Frederik Meijer Gardens: The Grocery Mogul's Gift to Grand Rapids
- Furniture City: The 1876 Centennial and What Followed
- Gerald Ford: The Unelected President from Grand Rapids
- Grand Rapids: River, Furniture, and What Comes Next
- Heritage Hill: A Neighborhood Built on Lumber and Furniture Money
- July 1967: What the Uprising Was Really About
- La Grande Vitesse: Red Steel and a City's New Identity
- Louis Campau and the Trading-Post Town
- The Dutch Wave: Faith, Reform, and Deep Roots
- The Freedom Road Through Grand Rapids
- The Great Log Jam of 1883
- The Meijer Supercenter: Inventing the American Big Box
- The Polish West Side: Solidarity in the Factory Town
- The Rapids and the River, O-wash-ta-nong
- The Strike of 1911: Workers Against the Barons
- The World's First Fluoridated City
- What's Under Your Feet: The Gypsum Mines
Near Holland
- De Zwaan: The Last Dutch Windmill to Leave the Netherlands
- Dutch Identity Today — What Survived the Generations
- Holland State Park — Big Red and the Big Lake
- Holland, Michigan — Van Raalte's Kolonie
- Hope College — This Is My Anchor of Hope
- Lake Macatawa and the Port
- Singapore: The Ghost Town Under the Dunes
- The Great Fire of Eighteen Seventy-One — Holland Burns with Chicago
- The Separatists — Why They Left the Netherlands
- Tulip Time — A Biology Teacher's Idea
Near Kalamazoo
- Air Zoo
- Bell's Brewery and the Soup Kettle That Started a Revolution
- Bronson Park and the Town That Changed Its Founder's Name
- Celery City, the Dutch, and the Black Muck
- Checker Cab, the Russian Immigrant, and the Yellow Car That Defined New York
- Gibson Guitars and the Workers Who Stayed
- Lincoln in Kalamazoo, the Only Time He Came to Michigan
- Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish and the Three-Mile Square
- Mattawan, Michigan
- Paw Paw, Michigan
- The Acres: Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Community
- The First Pedestrian Mall in America
- The Kalamazoo Promise and the Anonymous Donors
- The Kalamazoo School Case That Defined American Public Education
- The Ladies Library and the First Women's Club in Michigan
- The Name That Defied Translation
- The Upjohn Pill and the Medicine That Crumbles
Near Lansing
- Bath School Disaster: The Deadliest School Attack in American History
- Bath: The Deadliest School Attack in American History
- Charlotte: Named for a New Yorker's Wife
- Delta Mills
- DeWitt: First Settlement in Clinton County
- Dimondale: The Diamond-Shaped Mill Village
- Governor Fitzgerald's Grand Ledge Home
- Holt: Named for a Postmaster General
- Ingham County Courthouse: A Temple of Justice in Mason
- Magic Johnson Was Born Here
- Malcolm Little Grew Up Here
- Michigan Votes for Women: A Year Before the Nation
- MSU Libraries: World Capital of Comics Scholarship
- Okemos: The Chief Who Stayed
- Old Town: North Lansing's Victorian Revival
- Perry: The Town That Followed the Railroad
- Potterville: Named for the Man Who Built It
- Ransom Olds and the Car That Survived the Fire
- REO Town: When Workers Built Their Own World
- The Accidental Capital
- The Day Lansing Shut Down
- The Dome That Made a Career
- The First Agricultural College in America
- The Goetsch-Winckler House: Frank Lloyd Wright's Favorite Small House
- The Hotel That Burned and the Law It Left Behind
- The Last Oldsmobile
- The River the Anishinaabe Called Far-Away Water
- Turner-Dodge House
- Wacousta: A Village Named for a Novel
- Webberville: Three Names, One Village
- Williamston: Two Trails, Three Names
Near Ludington
- Epworth Heights, a Methodist Summer City
- Salt From the Ashes of the Sawmills
- The Badger, Last of the Coal Fired Ships
- The Baron Who Named the Town
- The Cartier Mansion
- The Old Coast Guard Station
- The River That Started American Trout Fishing
- The Sinking of the Pere Marquette Eighteen
- Where Father Marquette Died
Near Munising
- Glass-Bottom Boats and the Alger Underwater Preserve
- Ice Caves, Ice Curtains, and the Michigan Ice Fest
- Miners Castle
- Miners Falls and Bridalveil Falls
- Munising Falls
- Munising: The Lumber Town at the Island
- Pictured Rocks: The First National Lakeshore
- Pictured Rocks: Three Hundred Ninety Million Years Facing Lake Superior
- The East Channel Lighthouse
Near Petoskey
- Bay View: A Victorian Chautauqua on the Bluff
- Bay View: A Victorian Summer Utopia on Lake Michigan
- Bruce Catton: The Civil War Storyteller Born Here
- From Cement Plant to Bay Harbor
- From Railroad Town to Gaslight District
- Hemingway's Northern Michigan Summers
- Hemingway's Northern Michigan: The Streams Before the Books
- How to Actually Find a Petoskey Stone
- Indian River, Michigan
- Little Traverse Bay: Lumber, Steamers, and Deep Water
- Petosegay: The Man This Town Is Named For
- The Depot That Became a Museum
- The Perry Hotel: Last of Twenty-One
- The Petoskey Stone: A Coral Reef in Your Pocket
- Topinabee, Michigan
- Waganakising: The Odawa Who Would Not Leave
- Wolverine, Michigan
Near Sleeping Bear Dunes
- D.H. Day — The Farm, the Orchards, and the Park Gift
- Establishing the National Lakeshore — Nineteen Seventy and the Fight to Preserve It
- Glen Haven — Cordwood Village and the Canning Era
- Most Beautiful Place in America — the Twenty Eleven Vote
- Sleeping Bear Dunes and the Mother Bear
- The Dune Climb — Four Hundred Feet of Sand
- The Perched Dunes of Lake Michigan
- The Sleeping Bear Waits
- The Three Fires: Who Held Michigan Before the Treaties
Near Traverse City
- Cherry Capital of the World
- Interlochen: Where America's Young Artists Come to Play
- Kewadin: Northwest Wind Country
- Perry Hannah and the Lumber Boom
- The Boardman River Set Free
- The City Opera House on Front Street
- The Northern Michigan Asylum and Beauty as Therapy
- The State Theatre and the Film Festival
- The Village at Grand Traverse Commons
Along the way
- Albion, Michigan
- Alpena County Courthouse , Winter-Built Art Deco
- Benton Harbor, Michigan
- Bewabic State Park: The CCC's Handmade Wilderness
- Big Rock: Named for a Boulder, Gone Before the Map Was Dry
- Cambridge Junction: Where Two Roads Crossed
- Camp Lunden: The CCC in the North Woods
- Capac: An Inca Emperor Names a Michigan Village
- Carp River Forge: Where the Iron Age Began in the Upper Peninsula
- Central Mine Historic District
- Christmas Eve in the Copper Country
- Clarkston, Michigan: The Clark Brothers' Town
- Coldwater: The Chicago Road, the Artillery Battery, and Thirteen Million Cigars
- Coloma, Michigan
- Emmendorfer House: Underground Railroad Station
- Escanaba: The Upper Peninsula's Iron Port
- Fort de Buade
- Fort de Buade: New France's Straits Outpost
- Fowlerville: The Man Who Named a County
- Frenchtown: The River Raisin Settlement
- Friends Good Will: The Sloop Captured by the British
- Gaylord, Michigan
- Gratiot County Courthouse
- Grayling, Michigan
- Hartford, Michigan
- Hartwick Pines: The Last Old Growth
- Honolulu House
- Howell: The Michigan Town That Cannot Outrun Its Past
- Hurley: Hell-Hole of the Gogebic Range
- Imlay City: Gateway to the Thumb
- Ironwood: Iron, Immigrants, and the Gogebic Range
- Isle Royale: Five Thousand Years in a Lake Inside a Lake
- IXL Museum: The Company Town That Built a Hardwood Empire
- Lac Vieux Desert: Ojibwe Homeland at the Headwaters
- Lewiston's First Church: Lumber Camp to Congregation
- Lightship Huron
- Lightship Huron: A Floating Lighthouse
- Manistique and the Siphon Bridge
- Manistique Pumping Station: A Small City's Industrial Monument
- Marshall Historic District
- Marshall, Michigan: The Town That Missed Being Capital
- Marshall's Governor's Mansion
- Marshall's Governor's Mansion, The Capital That Wasn't
- McCourtie Park: Seventeen Concrete Bridges
- Michigan International Speedway
- Michigan Limestone , World's Largest Quarry
- Michigan Tech: Born in a Fire Hall, Built on Copper
- Michigan Theatre: Jackson's Spanish Baroque Palace
- Monroe, Michigan
- Morrice: The Scottish Brothers on the Michigan Prairie
- Mount Clemens, Michigan
- Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School
- National Ski Hall of Fame, Ishpeming
- Negaunee: Pioneer of the Iron Range
- North Higgins Lake and the CCC: Michigan's Reforestation
- Norway, Michigan and the Vulcan Iron Mine
- Oakland University and the Dodge Widow's Gift
- Olivet College: Founded on Radical Principle
- Ontonagon and the Boulder That Started a Copper Rush
- Port Huron: Where the Lakes Narrow and Edison Grew Up
- Portage Lake Lift Bridge
- Portland: City of Two Rivers
- River Raisin: Remember the Raisin
- Roscommon, Michigan
- Saint Ignace: Gateway to the Straits
- Sand Point Light: Guarding the UP's Iron Shore
- Selfridge Military Air Museum
- Selfridge: America's Oldest Continuously Active Air Base
- St. Ignace Mission
- St. Ignace Mission: Where Marquette Is Buried
- St. Joseph, Michigan
- Stevensville, Michigan
- Sylvania Wilderness and the Copper Country of Ottawa
- Tahquamenon and the Whiskey-Colored Rivers of Hiawatha
- Tawas City , Lumber Harbor on Lake Huron
- The Acacia: Sixty-Two Years on the Great Lakes
- The Au Sable River: Trout, Logging, and the River That Almost Died
- The Copper That Wired America
- The Honolulu House
- The House of David: Benton Harbor's Bearded Baseball Commune
- The Kirtland's Warbler and the Jack Pines of Huron-Manistee
- The Palace of Auburn Hills: Bad Boys and Three Rings
- The Ramsdell: Manistee's Gilded-Age Opera House
- The Silverdome: Air, Astroturf, and the Biggest Roof in Football
- The Sneaky Sunday Railroad Bridge
- The Soo Locks
- The Soo Locks: Twenty-One Feet Between Lakes
- The Spite Towers of Irish Hills
- The Stage Between Detroit and Chicago
- The Walleye Wars: Treaty Rights and the Boat Landing
- Thomas Edison Depot Museum
- Thomas Edison Depot, Where a Boy Became an Inventor
- Tibbits Opera House: The Stage Between Chicago and Detroit
- Tipton's Roadside Stop: The Davenport House
- Vanderbilt, Michigan
- Warren Woods State Park
- Waters, Michigan
- Watervliet, Michigan
- West Branch, Michigan
- White Pigeon, Michigan
- White Pigeon: The Chief Who Ran One Hundred Fifty Miles
- White Pigeon: The Chief Who Ran to Save His Neighbors
- Yooper: What Gets Left When the Mining Leaves