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Top Things to See

Hitsville USA
Listen to the music of Motown at Detroit's Hitsville USA, now home to Motown Historical Museum (www.motownmuseum.com), where the sounds of Diana Ross, The Temptations and The Four Tops are immortalized.

Detroit'sCultural Center
Spend a day at the Cultural Center featuring the Detroit Historical Museum (www.detroithistorical.org), the Detroit Institute of Arts (the fifth largest art museum in the USA) and the Charles H Wright Museum of African-American History (www.maah-detroit.org), the largest museum of its kind.

Dearborn
Drive through the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, the birthplace of Henry Ford and the automobile. Visit the Henry Ford Museum (www.hfmgv.org) and Greenfield Village, and step back through 300 years of history.

Ford and General Motors
Tour the Automotive Hall of Fame (www.automotivehalloffame.org), Spirit of Ford and Henry Ford's Fair Lane Estate (www.henryfordestate.org) in Dearborn. Or tour the General Motors plant in Lansing and watch cars come off the assembly line.

Mackinac Island
Escape to Mackinac Island (www.mackinacisland.org), a well-known summer resort in Michigan. Cars are not allowed and visitors must walk, cycle or use horse-drawn carriages. Visit the impressive Grand Hotel (www.grandhotel.com) and Fort Mackinac (www.mackinacparks.com), a restored 18th-century military outpost.

Isle Royale National Park
Backpack the Isle Royale National Park (www.nps.gov/isro), a wild, rocky wilderness island in the northern reaches of Lake Superior.

Top Things to Do

Explore theRenaissance Center
Dine at one of dozens of restaurants while visiting the Renaissance Center. The center also houses a 1,300-room hotel and a variety of shops, as well as being General Motors' world headquarters.

Ride a bike atBelle Isle
The nation's largest urban island park also offers canoeing, an aquarium and the Dossin Great Lakes Museum.

Take a family trip to Detroit Zoological Park
Families will love to explore the Detroit Zoological Park (www.detroitzoo.org), containing more than 5,000 animals in natural settings. Visitors can walk or tour by tractor-train.

Shop and eat in Detroit's Greektown
Enjoy Greek food, entertainment and specialty shops in Detroit's Greektown.

Travel along Michigan's Great Lakes coastline
Get your feet wet traveling along the Great Lakes coastline. The 60,000km (36,000 miles) of rivers and 11,000 inland lakes offer great boating, canoeing, fishing and watersports opportunities.

VisitAnn Arbor
The home of the University of Michigan (www.umich.edu) offers a multitude of bookstores and cosy cafés perfect to stop and relax.

Let loose inTraverse City
Head for the recreational haven of Traverse City, which features sand dunes, resorts, golf and skiing.