The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

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

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.