These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

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

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

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

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

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

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

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