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

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

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

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

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

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

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

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

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

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

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

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

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

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

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.