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

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

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

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

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

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

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

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

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.