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.
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Famous people's places / Highland Park
Closed – archive entryAlbert Kahn's revolutionary factory where Henry Ford's moving assembly line began mass-producing the Model T in 1913, now a National Historic Landmark with an uncertain future.
Famous people's places / Southfield
A Depression-era engineering school founded in Highland Park in 1932, later relocated to Southfield, where automotive engineer and DeLorean Motor Company founder John DeLorean studied on scholarship in the 1940s.
Famous people's places / Highland Park
Closed – archive entryA former Woodward Avenue movie palace turned strip club, site of Vincent Chin's 1982 bachelor party on the night that led to his fatal beating.
Famous people's places / Highland Park
Closed – archive entryChrysler's original manufacturing and headquarters complex in Highland Park, home to the company from its 1925 founding through Lee Iacocca's 1980s rescue, demolished after the move to Auburn Hills in 1996.
Famous people's places / Highland Park
Closed – archive entryHighland Park's public high school on Woodward Avenue, where pitcher Billy Pierce threw six shutouts as a teenager in the early 1940s, closed in 2015 and demolished the following year.
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
