MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin angler fishing in the fog this week discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat submerged in the waters of Lake Michigan for more than a century, state officials announced ...

If you like exploring once-thriving ghost towns, head to this farming village in Michigan with an abandoned general store, ...

Detroit architecture has had a rebirth. Over the last decade, many of the city’s most iconic historic buildings have been ...

Michigan hides its old townsites with a kind of quiet persistence, tucking them into dunes along the Great Lakes, deep hardwood forests, and rocky points where the land itself seems to have decided to ...

MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - The Michigan Department of Transportation announced funding for improvements to 11 railroad crossings in Mid-Michigan. The projects are among a total of 32 that will receive ...

Michigan’s old factory bones tell a quieter story now, where vines read blueprints and maples draft their own comeback plan. You can walk the edges of history and feel time slow, like a weekend drive ...

Imagine walking through a town frozen in time, where old buildings whisper stories of workers and families who once called it home. Fayette, Michigan, is one of those rare places where history feels ...

Michigan has a spooky secret hiding in plain sight. Scattered across the state are old amusement parks and fun zones that once echoed with laughter and joy but now sit silent and forgotten. I’m taking ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

I'm always down for a nature hike where I get to see some cool plants, maybe an animal or two, and an interestingly shaped rock, but my favorite kinds of hikes are those that make me feel like I've ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

The story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. Edward Norton narrates the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: ...