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

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

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

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

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

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.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

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

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.

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

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

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.