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The 10 Best Cars of the 2015 Detroit Auto Show!

Known as “Motor City”, Detroit is the origin of the modern automobile industry, beginning with Henry Ford’s Model T. Detroit is also the home of the renowned North American International Auto Show, where all the major manufacturers display concept cars, new models and technology advancements.

See the Awesome Cars Launched At the 2017 Edition of NAIAS

It’s held annually in Motor City – Detroit, Michigan, and many significant car launches take place at the show.

These Unique Abandoned Places Will Spark Your Curiosity

., Detroit, Michigan Related: 17 Beautiful Abandoned Structures Reclaimed by Nature 4. A petrified iron ladder, somewhere in France 5. An abandoned glass mansion in Virginia Related: The Eerie Beauty of Abandoned European Buildings 6. 

Color Postcards That Show 1890s Scotland in All Its Beauty

These stunning postcards of Scotland during the end of the 19th century were produced by the Detroit Publishing Company using the Photochrom process, a technique used to apply vibrant and surprisingly realistic color to black and white images.

Museums Are Simply Treasure Troves - 16 Fascinating Photos

An “exploded” Ford Model T at the Henry Ford Museum Of Innovation in Detroit, Michigan. Image Source: Reddit 6. The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit is also home to the actual bus that Rosa Parks protested on. Image Source: Reddit Related: Museums Have Some of the Most Captivating Artifacts! 7.

Visit the Great U.S. Cities... 100 Years Ago!

New York, 1910 Broad Street north of Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 1905 Fire at 55th Street, New York, 1915 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 1907 The New York Public Library, New York, 1915 Wall Street, New York, 1911 View of Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn, 1909 Woodward Avenue, Detroit

See Some of The First Colored Photographs In the US!

Stored in the archives of the Detroit Photographic Company, these pictures form the late 1880s to the early 1920s are some of the first colored photographs of North America.

A Historical Glimpse into the World's Great Cities

Pennsylvania - 1905 Memphis, Tennessee - 1910 Detriot, Michigan - 1917 Montgomery, Alabama - 1906 Moscow, Russia - 1977 Cincinnati, Ohio - 1905 Bombay, India - 1880 Athens, Greece - 1930s Jacksonville, Florida - 1910 Las Vegas, Nevada - 1959 Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts - 1920s Gothenburg, Sweden - 1961 Detroit

These Cinemas Will Make You Wish the Movie Never Ends!

Stunning Winter Garden Theatre #3 Olympia Music Hall, France #4 Sci-fi Dine-in Theater, Disney’s Hollywood Studios #5 Kurshumli An In Skopje, Macedonia - Creative Documentary Film Festival Makedox #6 Movie Theater In Paris #7 Electric Cinema, Notting Hill #8 Hot Tube Cinema, London #9 Fox Theater, Detroit

Watch These Old Historical Photos Come Magically to Life

Detroit, Michigan, 1908 Smoke pours out of smokestacks at the Morgan & Wright Detroit Rubber Works in 1908. This location was actually the inspiration for the animated sequence you're about to see below. 3.

22 New and Beautiful Colorized Vintage Photos

Waiting room at Greyhound Bus Depot, Detroit, Michigan, photographed by John Vachon in August 1942 Image source: Sébastien de Oliveira 8. People in Vale, Oregon, for the Fourth of July celebration, 1941 Image source: Sébastien de Oliveira 9. 

These Gorgeous Colorized Postcards Are Over 100 Years Old

It was licensed out to the Detroit Publishing Company, which turned thousands of black of white photographs into color postcards. Here are 14 examples of the publishing company's stellar work: Click on images to enlarge A cowboy rides through the American Wild West.

These Abandoned Places Look So Majestic in Their Loneliness

[related_articles] Pictured below, an abandoned church in Detroit, USA. Crystal Mill, Colorado, USA. This railway tunnel in Paris, France, has long been forgotten. Sintra Well, Portugal. This town in Belchite, Spain, was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War.

These Pictures Perfectly Capture the Magic of the 1970s

Dolly Parton performs in Detroit, Michigan in September 1977. 10. New York City, 1975 11. Susan Sarandon, Cannes, 1978 Related: Celebrities of the Past In the Most Fascinating Photos 12. Al Pacino, 1970s 13. Conversation pits from the 1960s and 1970s 14. New York City, 1978.

WOW! Wild Nature Has Reclaimed These Once Proud Buildings

A tragic church (Detroit, USA) panog 3. Historic Crystal Mill (Colorado, USA) The Denver City Page 4. A disused railway tunnel (Paris, France) Myrabella 5. The mossy Sintra Well (Portugal) matthias_haker 6. A ghost town ruined by the Spanish Civil War (Belchite, Spain) carlos_santero 7.

Hilarious: When Adult Kids Still Prank Their Parents!

"Mom was worried about my trip to Detroit, so I sent her this picture." "I saw this apron while shopping and decided to do a remake of my mother’s favorite picture for Christmas. Taken 23 years apart."

Marvel at These Wonders of Modernist Architecture

McGregor Conference Center, Detroit, Michigan. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki in 1958 7. Goulding Summer House, Enniskerry, Ireland. Designed by Scott Tallon Walker in 1971 [related_articles] 8. The Wave, La Baule, France, designed by Pierre Doucet in 1979 9. 

These Buildings Are Surviving Reminders of the Recent Past

Michigan Central Station in Detroit, Michigan Detroit has been a city in decline ever since the 1950s, and this once-glorious train station is emblematic of the city's fall from grace. The Amtrak rail service stopped running through the station in 1988, and was abandoned thereafter. 6.

Watch Your Step: The World's Most Treacherous Staircases

Huntington Place Convention Center, Detroit. How is that even legal? Image source: Death Stairs Related: Beautiful Photos of Spiral Steps! 6. My only question: why?! Image source: Death Stairs 7. That, among other issues, looks s slippery!! Image source: Death Stairs [related_articles] 8.