Places to exploreMuseums, parks, neighborhoods and icons
Metro Detroit mapWhat Metro Detroit is, and what every town is about
The Henry FordRosa Parks’ bus, Greenfield Village and the Ford Rouge Factory
RenCen: live trackerThe Renaissance Center’s past, present and future, up to the minute
Gordie Howe BridgeThe new bridge to Canada: live waits, tolls, and yes, you can walk it
ToursBy boat, by bike or on foot, with a local guide
Escape roomsOne hour, one lock and your crew
Plan a meetingVenues, hotels and what’s on in town on your datesDETROIT / Places to explore / ¼
Explore museums, parks, stages, and distinctive neighborhoods across Detroit and nearby cities. Each place comes with its own story and related events.
12 places found
Famous people's places / Detroit – Cass Corridor
Closed – archive entryA cooperative of poets, jazz musicians and artists founded by John Sinclair in the Cass Corridor in 1964, an incubator for Detroit's underground music and arts scene.
Famous people's places / Warren
Michigan's first Black-owned cemetery, founded in 1925 in Warren, where Supremes founder Florence Ballard is buried.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Warrendale
The small Ford family cemetery beside the closed St. Martha's Episcopal Church in Detroit, where Henry and Clara Ford are buried under an ornate iron mortsafe.
Famous people's places / Warren
Eero Saarinen's 1956 modernist research campus for GM in Warren, with work by Harry Bertoia, Ruth Adler Schnee and Maija Grotell; a National Historic Landmark, still a working GM site.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Mural of musician Sixto Rodriguez by artist Nicole Macdonald on the Iroquois Apartments in Midtown Detroit, near Wayne State University.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Warrendale
A residential Detroit neighborhood on the far west side, bordered by Dearborn, where rapper Tee Grizzley grew up with his grandmother.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Detroit's Midtown public research university, founded in 1868 as the Detroit Medical College, whose students and faculty include dozens of famous Detroiters.
Famous people's places / Warren
South Warren's public high school, where a teenage Marshall Mathers, later Eminem, failed ninth grade three times and dropped out at 17.
Famous people's places / Warren
Warren's big community college campus, opened in 1965; horror writer Thomas Ligotti studied at Macomb in the early 1970s.
Famous people's places / Warren
A Chrysler truck plant operating since 1938 in Warren, once nicknamed 'Dodge City,' where Contours singer Joe Billingslea worked and led the local UAW.
Famous people's places / Warren
Metro Detroit's Ukrainian Catholic school, founded in Hamtramck in 1936 and now based in Warren, where future Ukrainian health minister Ulana Suprun studied in the 1970s.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
A Wayne State University building in Midtown Detroit, named for industrialist and philanthropist Alex Manoogian and home to the university's language and linguistics programs.
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
