Detroit is known for one of the richest collections of late 19th-century, ethnic-based churches in the country.

Belle Isle, the nation's largest island park within a city, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect of New York's Central Park.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made the debut of his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech at Cobo Center in Detroit two months before its famous delivery in Washington, D.C.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is the largest museum of its kind in the world.

Detroit's Cultural Center is home to the Detroit Institute of Arts, and its collection is among the top six in the United States.