The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

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

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

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

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

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.