DETROIT — It was not yet 8 a.m. when the van pulled up behind Lee Plaza. A towering art deco monolith standing 16 stories tall over central Detroit, the former luxury hotel had been modeled after the ...

We've got a double-header for today's edition of Detroit Cliche Watchdog, an ongoing series examining media coverage of Detroit from everywhere except Detroit. Are you ready? YouTube user proshea01, ...

DETROIT — Nancy Mitchnick’s representations of places — whether they refer to actual locations or states of mind — ricochet out into the real world, conveying a sense of how a place looks based on how ...

Detroiters may despise the ruins that surround them, but the hundreds – if not thousands – of tourists who come to see the derelict buildings say the experience helps them understand the Motor City.

Five years after having been saved from the wrecking ball, the controversial sale of a Banksy piece from Detroit has finally gone through. With the auction house, Los Angeles’s Julien’s Auctions, ...

DETROIT -- Detroit has more than 70,000 abandoned buildings. Among them is an old Cadillac plant that houses piles of wood. Where others see trash, Mark Wallace sees buried treasure. Wallace started ...

Having sat empty for over 60 years, the Packard Automotive Plant was the location of Richie Hawtin's famed Spastik warehouse parties in the late '90s ...

Seph Lawless examines a typical Detroit ruin. Credit: Photo courtesy of Seph Lawless. Ruin porn, urban exploring, urban spelunking — call it what you will, but the fascination with Detroit’s ruins is ...

The Michigan Central Station stands empty in Detroit. Built in 1913, the building closed in 1988 and has since been a major attraction on so-called "ruin tours" that focus on the city's abandoned ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I REACHED DOWN the pant cuff with the eraser end of my pencil and poked it. Frozen solid. But definitely human. "Goddamn." I took a deep ...

Michigan, the national leader in recession, depends on an auto industry that will never be as big as it was. So how does the Detroit area diversify? Who's hiring, or investing in something new?

Detroit police closed a crime lab in 2008 but left behind live ammunition, evidence from criminal investigations, chemicals and high-tech equipment in a building that has been open to trespassers, a ...