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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.

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

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

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

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

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

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

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

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

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

The longest structure of its kind ever built in Michigan.

A memorial to the Potawatomi chief who allegedly ran nearly 150 miles to alert settlers of an impending attack.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.