Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

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

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

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

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

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

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

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

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

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”