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A sheer tourist trap calculated to get you to buy $100 worth of Christmas ornaments and eat $30 worth of chicken.

The Mackinaw City/Mackinac Island/St. Ignace triangle, 200-some miles north of there, is definitely tourist-trappy also, but also has a lot of legitimately interesting colonial British and early-explorer French historical attractions. And the bridge is awesome.

If you want to jaunt up an hour further north to Paradise on the Lake Superior shore, you can take in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and see artifacts from the Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down some 13 miles off shore.


As far as must-visit cities in Michigan -- there really aren't any.

 

I could go to Reading Terminal Market on a weekly basis and never get tired of it. The rest of Philly ... I can take it or leave it.

 

Why would the Subarus have breasts of any size?

 

Got a good friend that lives out in Grand Junction. Went skiing at Wolf Creek several years back. Very very cool part of the state.

 

Anyone listing Dallas as a great baseball town would also list Munchkinland as a great basketball land. Sorry, but Josh Hamilton spoke a grain of truth.

 

Philly's art museum is very under-rated.
And the Barnes Foundation gallery is awesome. Limited number of visitors per day, so you gotta get tix in advance.
Rodin museum and Mutter both cool.

 

Any town with a Barnes & Noble is pretty good.

 

Perhaps a nod back to auto design of the 50's. Maybe it would increase their sales.
Subliminal suggestion of breasts worked for Cadillac.

 

It's the Rocky Balboa statue. Sophisticated art types look down their nose at it
and as a result don't take the Philly Art museum seriously.

 

It has been a point of contention, although a silly one.
I always thought it was strange to put the statue up in the first place, but once it had been there for so long it was equally silly to take it down.

Anyway, the museum itself is excellent. It's not the Met, but it's still great.

 

The statue's off to the side of the museum, so I don't see why it's a big deal. There are "footprints" and a Rocky plaque at the top of the steps, though.

As for why it's there, I'm sure it increases traffic on the grounds exponentially, though I'd be interested to know how many people go into the actual museum if they came there primarily to see the statue.