Places graceling Wants to Go

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

A public display of random paleontology.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.