The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Berlin's old airport.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.