Detroit, Michigan
The Russell Industrial Center
Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.
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Detroit, Michigan
Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.
Detroit, Michigan
The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.
Detroit, Michigan
Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Dearborn, Michigan
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
Detroit, Michigan
The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.
Detroit, Michigan
Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.
Detroit, Michigan
Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.
Highland Park, Michigan
Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.
Detroit, Michigan
A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.
South Lyon, Michigan
This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.
Colon, Michigan
A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.
Darwin, Minnesota
17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Chanhassen, Minnesota
Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Live Oak, Florida
This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.