“I came specifically to Detroit for the ruins," Schweizer, 41, a biologist who lives in Berlin, said Saturday outside the old Packard Plant, one of the city's best-known urban ruins.

Photographers have flocked to the city to capture the decline; two French photographers even produced a book, “The Ruins of Detroit.” But since the city declared bankruptcy in July ...

Ruin porn, urban exploring, urban spelunking — call it what you will, but the fascination with Detroit’s ruins is undeniable. Photographer Seph Lawless prefers to use his own term, though.

What follows is only a slice of Detroit, so take it as it is ... Perhaps the most spectacular ruins in the entire city, the Packard Plant rests just off interstate 94 on the east side.

The Ruins of Detroit was a five-year collaboration between French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, who together documented the decaying public buildings of the city at the heart of ...

It was 27 years ago today that the final train pulled out of Michigan Central Station in Detroit. In the years that followed, the once-proud symbol of Detroit's grandeur became one of its most ...

DETROIT -- It's a place that has inspired world-class poets, blockbuster filmmakers, pioneering techno musicians, wildly inventive graffiti artists and, yes, chroniclers of ruin porn. The old ...

The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Mich. Going once. Going twice. Sold. The Banksy has left Detroit for good. The city's most famous and controversial piece of street art, painted in 2010 amid the ...

Schulak, 55 and the founder of a design-advocacy group called Culture Lab Detroit, was giving her visitor an inside look at the city, from the ruins of the 3.5 million-square-foot Packard plant to ...

Even the city’s industrial ruins, like the old Packard Plant ... As the T-shirts say, Detroit Hustles Harder. You’ll have to adopt the same motto if you want to fit it all in, but feel ...