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

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

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

This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.

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

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

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

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

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

This 19th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

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

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.