Explore Michigan
Michigan has long used a design called the Michigan left, in which drivers who want to turn left from a main road go through the intersection, make a U-turn at a median opening beyond it, and turn right at the cross street. The Michigan Department of Transportation uses them on divided roads, mostly in urban areas, and not on freeways.
Around 60 breweries sit near the stops we cover in Michigan. 36 of them are brewpubs with a kitchen, which off the motorway is often the useful part. The kitchen figure is a floor: the source lists some full restaurants as production sites.
Brewpub locations from Open Brewery DB (MIT)
Historic Sites and Attractions
1 in Michigan, by town.
- Hours
- Public street; no hours on any official page. (The state's downtown museum sites have their own seasonal hours.)
- Admission
- Street itself has no stated fee. The state's Historic Downtown Mackinac museum ticket is $11 adult / $8 child (5-12) for 2027 per the same page.
- Season
- Closed for the 2026 season. Open for the 2027 season May 7! source
Main Street runs through Mackinac Island's downtown business district; the state's Mackinac Art Museum, beside Marquette Park just below Fort Mackinac, has its entrance off it. The state-run downtown museum sites are closed for the 2026 season and reopen in spring 2027.
- No city page for the street; official URL is the state parks' downtown museums page
- Island's no-cars status not confirmed from a primary page in this pass
- State museum sites closed for the 2026 season (art museum reopens May 7, 2027; others June 5, 2027)
Run by Street: City of Mackinac Island (not confirmed from a city page). Downtown museum sites: Mackinac State Historic Parks
This is a list of what is near you, not a recommendation of any of it. Opening times and prices here are quoted from each operator’s own page on the date we read it, and both change without notice. Where this list says an operator does not publish their hours or their price, that is what we found on their page — 1 of these publish no hours and 1 state no price. A blank is not “free” and not “always open”, so ring ahead where it matters. Every name above links to that page.
Roadside oddities in Michigan
LakenenlandFolk art / sculpture gardenChocolay Township
- Cost to see it
- Free
- When you can see it
- Any time — outdoors, visible from the road
- Nearest road
- M-28
Drive-through park of 80+ wry scrap-metal sculptures.
Read on the page we checked
- Cost to see it
- Free
- When you can see it
- Any time — outdoors, visible from the road
- Nearest road
- I-94 / I-75
Block-long outdoor art environment of painted houses and found objects.
- Fine for most children, but look it over before you let them loose
Read on the page we checked
Hamtramck DisneylandFolk art / sculpture gardenHamtramck
- Cost to see it
- Free
- When you can see it
- Any time — outdoors, visible from the road
- Nearest road
- I-75
Retiree's whirligig-covered backyard towers, now kept by a foundation.
Read on the page we checked
Anatomy of Death MuseumQuirky museumMount Clemens
- Cost to see it
- Costs something — we did not find the price published
- When you can see it
- Only while it is open, and we did not find its hours published
- Nearest road
- I-94
Small museum of real medical skulls and skeletons.
- Fine for most children, but look it over before you let them loose
Read on the page we checked
Oswald's Bear RanchRoadside attraction / tourist stopNewberry
- Cost to see it
- Costs something — we did not find the price published
- When you can see it
- Seasonal — not open all year
- Nearest road
- M-123
Walk among enclosures holding dozens of black bears.
- Open seasonally, not all year
Read on the page we checked
Dinosaur GardensRoadside attraction / tourist stopOssineke
- Cost to see it
- Costs something — we did not find the price published
- When you can see it
- Seasonal — not open all year
- Nearest road
- US-23
Life-size 1930s concrete dinosaurs in the woods.
- Open seasonally, not all year
Read on the page we checked
These are things you can go and look at, not a recommendation of any of them. Oddities move, get sold and quietly disappear more than anything else we list, so check anything you are driving a long way for. Where this list says we did not find a price or opening times published, that is exactly what we mean. A blank is not “free” and not “always open”. Some sit on private land and can only be seen from the road — please do not go onto anyone’s property. Every entry links the page we read it off.
