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A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

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

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

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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

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

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

In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

Although outnumbered, the Tecumseh Confederacy defeated a large regiment of United States troops.

This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

The remains of a failed canal can be found in several towns near Lake St. Clair and is known historically as "Mason's Folly."

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

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

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

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

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

This elaborately-carved white marble fountain was built to stand outside the Detroit Opera House.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

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

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

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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