Things to do, places to visit in Detroit :
Belle Isle Park: Belle Isle is a 983-acre island park on the Detroit River. It's a favorite picnic spot and is ideal for fishing and outdoor recreation. The park features a nature center, tennis courts, beach areas, a waterslide, and playgrounds, and it's connected to the city by bridge. Belle Isle boasts spectacular views of the downtown skyline.
Motown Historical Museum
Detroit Institute of Arts: considered to house one of the best art collections in the United States, the Institute showcases everything from mummies to modern art and African masks to Monets in its outstanding collection of over 65,000 works.
Detroit Historical Museum: the Motor City Exhibition, where visitors see how a Cadillac is assembled, is just one of the many interesting displays at this museum dedicated to telling the story of Detroit.
Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory
New Detroit Science Center: science is made fun and exciting in this hands-on, interactive science center, which introduces science, engineering and technology in ways that children can understand.
GM Renaissance Center: multi-towered skyscraper is the tallest building in Detroit that features an observation tower on the 72nd floor.
Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History: museum serves to document, preserve and educate the public on the history, life and culture of African Americans.
Comerica Park: home of the Detroit Tigers, this is no ordinary ballpark. Combination theme park, ballpark, and baseball museum, it features huge statues of tigers, a Ferris wheel, carousel (with tigers, of course) and a fountain that celebrates each home run with colored lights and music.
Greektown
Ambassador Bridge: at the time this bridge was built in 1929 it was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
Detroit Cultural Center HIstoric District: this area includes Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Science Center, the Detroit Public Library and Wayne State University.
Cranbrook Art Museum: Cranbrook Art Museum's collection of contemporary art includes works that represent a variety of movements and schools, including Art Deco, Arts & Crafts, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. It especially highlights the ways that highly-respected Cranbrook has influenced design, art, and architecture in the 20th century.
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House: this splendid, tasteful mansion overlooks Lake St. Clair. Edsel, the only child of Henry and Clara Ford, and his wife Eleanor built this home in 1929, and it remains today as it was back then – an oversized version of an English country home.
Greenfield Village, an outdoor re-creation of a 19th-century town, pays tribute to the American people who followed their dreams and made life-changing discoveries along the way. Within the 80-acre site, you'll find historical replicas of the bicycle shop where the Wright brothers created the first airplane.
Meadow Brook Hall: this extravagant "castle," built during the Roaring '20s for Matilda Dodge, widow of John Dodge, is open to the public. Meadow Brook features 110 rooms, and most of them still present period decor and priceless art and furnishings. The home was inspired by traditional English Tudor country homes.
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