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A small welcome symbol for visitors to Ann Arbor.

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.

These statues pay homage to the "green corridor" of parks and wetlands.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

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

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

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

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

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

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

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

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

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

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

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

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

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

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

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.