The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

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

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

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

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

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

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

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

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

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

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.