It's happened to everybody, sometimes someone, a stranger, maybe someone you know does something

that just drives you insane.

Maybe they cut you off in traffic.

Maybe they've got a hundred items in the express checkout lane of the grocery store.

Whatever it is, silently fuming, you think to yourself, go to hell.

But what if you could actually send them there?

And what if hell was kind of nice, and a nice cream shop, and a mini golf course?

It's the greatest place in the world for people to watch.

I'm Dylan Therese, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

And today, you go to hell.

Michigan, we go to hell Michigan, and we discover a small town built on a pond.

And the man who has made it his mission to make every visitor fall in love with hell.

More after this.

Hell Michigan is a very, very small town outside of Ann Arbor.

Current population is 72.

In fact, it is so small that every part of the town is all within one block of each

other.

Today, we say hell has three business districts, uptown, midtown, downtown, there's one building

in each.

That's John Cologne, he's a retired Vietnam vet, and he's the owner of most of the buildings

within this small town square.

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