Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

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

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

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

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

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

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

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

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.