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Renaissance Center
The glass towers that define Detroit’s riverfront skyline, right beside the Riverwalk.
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Places. A thousand stories.
Explore museums, parks, stages, and distinctive neighborhoods across Detroit and nearby cities. Each place comes with its own story and related events.
25 places found
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Guardian Building
Colorful tile, geometric patterns, and an Art Deco skyscraper with an extraordinary interior.
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Fisher Building
Marble, mosaics, and golden details inside New Center’s monumental Art Deco landmark.
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Michigan Central Station
A reborn train station with monumental halls and a new role in Detroit’s future.
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Fox Theatre
The splendor of a 1928 movie palace, now home to major concerts and stage productions.
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Masonic Temple
A Gothic-scale Detroit landmark with towers, performance spaces, and concert nights inside a vast complex.
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Detroit Public Library — Main Library
Reading rooms, murals, and marble stairs make Detroit’s Main Library an architectural destination.
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The Fillmore Detroit
A former movie palace with contemporary concert energy on Woodward Avenue.
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Monument to Joe Louis — The Fist
The Fist: a monumental gesture connecting boxing history with wider struggles for equality.
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The Spirit of Detroit
A city symbol: a green bronze figure holding a golden sphere and a family.
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Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW)
Red or blue? Detroit’s airport has two terminals and more surprises than you’d expect, from a glowing tunnel to a floating train. Everything for your trip is right here.
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Detroit People Mover
Everything about the Detroit People Mover: 13 stations, a live timetable loop on an aerial photo, a virtual ride, a timeline from 1863 to 2027, 20 artworks, technology, ridership, contacts and social media.
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People Mover – Times Square station
The People Mover’s heart: beside the station stands the maintenance and control facility that supervises the driverless cars.
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People Mover – Michigan Avenue station
A free-standing station at Cass and Michigan Avenue, across from the downtown bus hub, with two humorous and colourful artworks.
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People Mover – Fort/Cass station
A small station at Fort Street and Cass Avenue that hides one of Detroit’s finest tile works and doubled its ridership in 2024.
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People Mover – Huntington Place station
The station built inside the convention centre, gateway to the auto show and Youmacon, now on its fourth name.
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People Mover – Water Square station
The former Joe Louis Arena station, built for crowds and now being reshaped for a new riverfront neighbourhood.
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People Mover – Financial District station
The Financial District station, where the People Mover was dedicated in 1987 and where Joyce Kozloff’s three-storey ceramic mural greets you.
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People Mover – Millender Center station
A station built into the fifth floor of a mixed-use complex, with skybridges to the Renaissance Center and city hall.
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People Mover – Renaissance Center station
The station at the foot of the Renaissance Center, demolished in 2002 and rebuilt in 2004; the busiest on the system in 2024.
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People Mover – Bricktown station
The quiet station of the Bricktown historic district, with a mural of Detroit music legends and Glen Michaels’s porcelain relief.
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People Mover – Greektown station
The station of Greektown and the Hollywood Casino, crowned by Stephen Antonakos’s neon; with half a million riders, the busiest in 2014.
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People Mover – Cadillac Center station
The station for Campus Martius and Hudson’s Detroit, home to Pewabic’s greatest historic tile hoard; its ridership quintupled in 2024.
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People Mover – Broadway station
The station at Broadway and John R Street brings riders to the opera, Music Hall, Ford Field and Comerica Park.
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People Mover – Grand Circus Park station
The People Mover and QLINE hub at Grand Circus Park, gateway to the Fox Theatre, Comerica Park and Little Caesars Arena, with a bronze newspaper reader on the platform.
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.