A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

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

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

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

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

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

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

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

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

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

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

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

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

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