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

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

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

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

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

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

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

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

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.