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There's nothing more eye-catching while you're driving down the road than a really unique mailbox. Especially, if you happen to find them on an otherwise less traveled road. Every once in a while I'll spot one while exploring the Kalamazoo area or while taking the backroads to Lake Michigan's shore. So, I recently took to the Facebook group Abandoned, Old, and Interesting Places in Michigan and specifically asked for photos of unique or interesting mailboxes others may have come across. This is the result.

Alanis Morissette honored her former bandmate Taylor Hawkins during a recent show in London. Watch her onstage tribute to the late legendary drummer below. Hawkins has been in multiple bands and worked with lots of musicians. He was a part of Morissette's touring band from 1995-1997, prior to joining the Foo Fighters the same year. You can spot him in her music videos for "You Oughta Know" and "You Learn."

The price of gas was lowered to a mid-January level for one hour at a Lansing-area gas station and cars lined up to take advantage of the deal. Although a political activist group was behind the stunt, those who cashed in on the deal didn't care why they were able to fill up at a deeply-discounted rate - and some weren't even aware of the reason behind the temporary low price of just $2.38 per gallon.

Are the Great Lakes still haunted by “Flying Dutchmen”?. Many northern Michiganders swear there are a handful of ghost ships that still sail the lakes. The name 'Flying Dutchman' comes from the late 1700s and is described as “a legendary ghost ship which was said to never be able to make port, doomed to sail the oceans forever”.

Shinedown continue to set rock chart records right and left, and their latest mark of distinction has the band moving into a tie for the most Top 10 songs on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart, a record that is now shared with Foo Fighters. The song that did it for...

Metallica released a live recording from the MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on May 12, 2014. The performance includes covers of songs by the Beatles, Deep Purple, Ozzy Osbourne and Rare Earth. The show paid tribute to Osbourne, whose "Diary of a Madman" closed...

Bond, James Bond. That's the vibe you get when you find out all the amenities that make this French Country Manor Estate something you'd see 007 sleuthing around. The best part is that you don't need to hop the pond to check it out, because it's right here in Rochester, Michigan.

A bizarre billboard posted along US-23 near Center Road in Fenton has people talking. The billboard in question features what appears to be owl eyes or ape eyes. (guessing) with eyes staring at southbound traffic. It turns out, there was also an alien featured previously on the same billboard and location.

Def Leppard are putting the glam back in glam metal. Just about a month after the release of their latest studio album Diamond Star Halos, the rockers have now launched a line of beauty products and scented candles so that you can feel even more connected to them. Available through...

Find your inner Zen in Royal Oak this summer while practicing yoga at the Detroit Zoo. The Detroit Zoo is offering morning and evening yoga sessions this summer. You'll get to to relax while mastering a variety of new poses, led by one of their certified instructors. The coolest part...

Seven people have been busted in a massive counterfeit operation based in Warren, where police say they specialized in producing fake designer goods. Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Versace, Chanel, Coach, Armani, MCM, Ferragamo, and Ray-Ban, and more, all fake, fake, fake as Elaine Benes would say. Warren Police tell Detroit's WDIV-TV...

A disturbing video shows two young girls (sisters) that were attempting to cross a street in Dearborn when all of a sudden they both got hit by a speeding car. The sisters were holding hands on Sunday as they tried to make their way across Ross Street near Banner. According...

The Kiss World museum recently opened in Las Vegas, giving fans a glimpse of 50 years' worth of the face-painted rockers' memorabilia. You can see photos from the opening — including myriad instruments, vinyl records, video games, clothing, comic books, trading cards and much more — in the gallery below.

A unique Metallica acoustic set featuring covers by The Beatles and Ozzy Osbourne has finally hit the Metallica webstore. It's from a 2014 charity gig that honored the Ozz-man and benefited the MusicCares MAP fund, which helps musicians recover from addiction. The star-studded benefit is an annual event in Los...

On more than one occasion, a man from Cedar Springs, Michigan, drove his truck around while shooting at deer out of the vehicle window. To top it off, he was also drinking and driving. 29 year-old- Edward Trout would literally get into his truck, drive around at night while drinking,...

Calling any artist "the biggest of all time" is definitely a loaded statement. How do you measure the size of their impact? Is it their global popularity or how many chart certifications they've received?. Linkin Park's debut release Hybrid Theory was the year 2001's best-selling album. They were slapped with...

Lzzy Hale has issued a statement on her Instagram defending women's pro-choice rights following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. The Halestorm frontwoman expressed her anger and disgust in her statement on Instagram and says that "we will fight back." Hale begins her Instagram post by stating that...

Woodchips BBQ in Lapeer is hosting a free Fourth of July community celebration at Torzewski County Park. This event features free entry with free access to the water park, free food, and so much more. That's right - everything is totally free thanks to the generosity of Woodchips BBQ owner...

A construction crew in Royal Oak unearthed a piece of Michigan history yesterday (6/28), revealing a section of streetcar tracks that once connected the city to Flint, Detroit, Romeo, and Imlay City. Discovering the 'Interurban' Railway. There's not a lot of information available about 'Interurban' railways that were popular in...

Motley Crue are back at full strength, as drummer Tommy Lee played his first full set with the band on "The Stadium Tour" after performing portions of previous shows while playing through broken ribs. Lee had been coming out for the first three songs of the night and later returning...