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

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

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

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

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

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

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

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

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

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

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

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

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

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

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

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

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