Cliffs Shaft Mine

Part of the complex of buildings surviving at the Cliffs Shaft Mine, in Ishpeming; photographed in the early 1990s (my notes say 1992, but I don't fully trust them). This is the greatest and most interesting of the Upper Peninsula's iron mines.

This remarkable (and decidedly photogenic--link from Michigan Tech) mine closed in 1967, but has recently reopened as a museum. Virtually the entire complex still stands.