One of the sites of an abandoned copper mine is now a ghost town. This is where the Ontonagon Boulder was discovered and where copper was subsequently mined. The village was built near Rockland in 1899, abandoned in 1921, and restored in the 1970s by the Society for the Restoration of Old Victoria. It is now part of the Keweenaw...

George “Stormy” Kromer was a Wisconsin railroad engineer and semi-pro baseball player who complained to his wife, Ida, that he was tired of losing his baseball-style cap to the winter wind while working on the train. So he asked if she could sew some flaps on an old baseball cap to keep it snug. It worked so well that a...

Since you’re in Copper Country, go to a copper mine. An underground mine. An abandoned underground mine. Actually, go into the mine where you can begin to understand what the miners experienced, especially when the guide has everyone turn the hardhat lights off. Absolute darkness. The Adventure Mine in Greenland, Mich., offers four separate tours in an abandoned mine. For...