The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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.

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

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

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

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

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

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

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

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.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.