For those coming in from the coasts, Michigan is a truly beautiful state. The Ann Arbor / Detroit area has lots to do and for those who want to travel a bit Northern Michigan's beauty can rival the best of them.
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Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum (Dearborn) - Good ol' Henry Ford took apart whole buildings from around the world and reassembled them in one area. You can see Thomas Edison's lab, the Wright Brother's workshop, George Washington Carver's childhood home, a cottage from the Cotswolds, and much, much more. If you do one tourist event, this should be it! |
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| Downtown Ann Arbor - Ann Arbor is a great small town with lots of shops, restaurants, a movie theatre where they play an organ prior to the start of the film, and the University of Michigan Campus to explore. Find hidden gems like a 15-foot-tall, 2400-lb glossy spinning black cube or a 5,000 square foot mural by Katherine Tombeau. |
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Ann Arbor Art Museum (free) - See the highly regarded Asian art collection at the recently remodeled museum. |
| Natural History Museum (free) - See the dioramas, taxidermy and dinosaur bones that Ann Arbor school children know and love and catch a show at the planetarium. |
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Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum - Kids jumping on the hotel beds? The Hands-On Museum is a great way for the kids to burn off all that excess energy generated from a flight half way across the country. |
| Michigan vs Connecticut at the Big House - The U of M takes its football seriously. Ann Arbor's population swells by over 100,000 people for normal games and this is the first home game of the season! |
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Windsor, Ontario - Just across the river from Detroit, you can say can say "eh" a lot and visit a Fort Malden where the Canadian's (then the English) used to fend off the pesky French long before we renamed our favorite greasy food Freedom Fries. |
