Boasting a strong and meticulously displayed collection of works spanning the centuries from ancient times to the present, the Detroit Institute of Arts is the fifth-largest fine-arts museum in the country. Today the collection exceeds 55,000 objects..

The world's largest institution of African-American history deals with the life and culture of African Americans from slave-trade days to the present. Wright, a local doctor, started the museum in three row houses in 1965; the present glass-domed str..

In 1959 Berry Gordy Jr., a local African-American songwriter, purchased this brick house and named it "Hitsville USA" in hopes that his record company, the Motown Record Corp., would make a dent in the charts. By 1966 Motown's offices occup..

One of the few "auto baron" estates not to imitate the gray stone manors of England, this extravagant Mediterranean-style villa was designed in 1928 by C. Howard Crane for Lawrence P. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Body Co. and general manag..