Tourist attractions Dearborn

Fronted by a replica of Philadelphia's Independence Hall, the museum resembles a colossal (12-acre) automobile factory within and presents a veritable treasure trove of Americana. The museum's most popular exhibit, 100 Years of the Automobile in Amer..

Henry Ford uprooted more than 75 historic structures from all over the country and plopped them down in his idealized village in an effort to preserve the way of life that, ironically, disappeared with the birth of Ford's Model T. Among the buildings..

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..

This 56-room, English-style mansion, located on the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus, made of rough-hewn Ohio limestone with a crenellated roofline and turret, set the opulent standard for "auto baron" dwellings. Built for automobile ..

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..

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..

Featured on three levels are changing exhibits from the gallery's permanent collection of over 2,500 works of Canadian art dating from 1750 to the present, including paintings from the Group of Seven. The mission of the museum, which is housed in Wil..

The outstanding attraction of this park, which stretches several blocks along the river west of the main thoroughfare (Ouellette Ave.), is its view of the Detroit skyline across the water. It is also a good vantage point from which to watch the huge ..

This zoo was one of the first in the country to feature open, natural environments for its animals. Loop trails and a miniature train wind amid its 125 park-like acres, home to 1,500 mammals, birds and reptiles. Habitats include the four-acre Arctic ..

A working Bosch-Omori seismograph, donated to the city by a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, highlights the collection of this small local-history museum. Other features include 19C period rooms and an annex full of antique loggin..