Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

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

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

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

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

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

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

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

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

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

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

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

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

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

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

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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

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

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.