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Unique attractions in Michigan
The US State of Michigan offers a number of unique and record-breaking attractions.
World's Largest Haunted House : Erebus Haunted Attraction
Erebus, located in Pontiac, is a four story haunted house that is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Largest Walk-Through Haunted Attraction in 2005.
www.michigan.org/blog/events/frightful-fun-at-the-worlds-largest-haunted-house
World's Largest Christmas Store : Bronner's Christmas Wonderland : Frankenmuth
The world's largest Christmas store with over 90,000 square feet of festive retail outlets.
www.michigan.org/property/bronner-s-christmas-wonderland
World's Largest Cherry Pie Pan: Traverse City
Near Traverse City, the cherry capital of the USA, at the Sara Lee Bakery Group, stands the World's Largest Cherry Pie Pan.
The pan was made to hold the World's Largest Cherry Pie at the time (from 1987-1992), which weighed 28,350 pounds and was 17 feet, 6 inches in diameter.
www.michigan.org/blog/events/michigan-world-record-holders
World's Largest Weather Vane: Montague
This functioning weathervane is 48 feet tall with an arrow 26 feet long. The figure of the White Lake lumber schooner "Ella Ellenwood" which sails atop was chosen because it best typifies the colourful but rugged history of the area.
www.michigan.org/property/world-s-largest-weathervane
World's Largest Horse & Buggy - Mackinac Island Carriage Tours
Visitors to this island, a National Historic Landmark where cars are not allowed, can take a historic and scenic horse carriage tour on the largest horse and buggy livery.
www.michigan.org/property/mackinac-island-carriage-tours
World's Longest Front Porch – Grand Hotel: Mackinac Island
This 19th century Grand Hotel is on Mackinac Island with a 660 foot front porch.
World's largest Tyre model
The Uniroyal tyre, the largest tyre model ever built, was originally a Ferris wheel made for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
It weighs nearly 12 tons, is 86 feet high, and now stands in Allen Park, Detroit and can be seen on the way to Detroit Metro Airport.
Michigan
Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline in the US and 100 public beaches.
It has two National Lakeshores and the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron, the only national marine sanctuary in the Great Lakes; 129 lighthouses, maritime museums, shipwreck-diving preserves and military fortifications around Michigan's Great Lakes shoreline.
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