Planning a Michigan road trip and looking for all the best things to do and things to see in the state? Browse below to find a selection of the best Michigan roadside attractions for sightseeing, famous tourist sites, tasty roadside restaurants, road trip stops, top attractions, destinations, and other must-see Michigan tourist attractions at Silly America. Plan your next vacation or road trip driving through Michigan and find all the most iconic, weird, cool, and silliest sites along the way!
Are you planning a Michigan road trip and want to find all the best Michigan roadside attractions along your route? Whether you’re driving I94 to Detroit, exploring the Upper Peninsula, traversing the River Road Scenic Byway, or taking the M-22 Circle Tour, you won’t want to miss these fifteen must-see places to go in Michigan. …
This Michigan roadside attraction certainly doesn’t fall flat! It’s the World’s Largest Tire in Allen Park, Michigan, AKA the giant Uniroyal tire! The biggest tire in the world weighs in at a whopping 12 tons and stands at 80-feet tall. It is so big that if it were fit on an actual car, that car …
While driving through Michigan I happened upon these large cows grazing alongside a giant sundae outside Bubba’s New Buffalo Jersey Subs and Bake Shoppe/Moo’s Ice Cream Shoppe in New Buffalo, Michigan…and they were udderly fantastic! This Michigan roadside attraction features a herd of life-size black and white holstein cattle surrounding a larger-than-life ice cream sundae …
I was driving through Michigan on a short Michigan road trip, a day-long car trip from Chicago, to see a calamari eating contest and a presentation of the world’s biggest hamburger in Detroit. Along the way, as I always do on road trips, however short they may be, I stopped at random roadside attractions (like …
Some roadside attractions are built from scratch to mimic whatever the artist wants them to be. Others make use of what already exists to turn something ordinary into something extraordinary. Such is the case with this giant basketball gas tank on the highway outside of Detroit, Michigan. An oil tank on I-75 in River Rouge, …
Big Boy Restaurants launched in 1936 and until this weekend I had never seen one in person. The chain began in Glendale, California but moved its headquarters to Warren, Michigan in the late 1980s by one of the many owners the restaurant has seen over the years. There are 455 Big Boy restaurants in the …
Mallie’s Sports Bar & Grill in Southgate, Michigan isn’t just your typical sports bar. Yes, the big game is most certainly on one of many, many, televisions. Yes, they have beer. And yes, they have food…even if that food might be more than you bargained for. In fact, this Michigan restaurant is known for its …
Apparently Michigan is in the Eastern time zone. In retrospect I probably already knew that but it never occurred to me to even check. Luckily, I was alerted to this fact the night before I was taking my Southgate, Michigan road trip and driving from Chicago to Detroit (or, at least, close to Detroit) and …
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