Through a link from cynodd's mother, I found this photo exhibition in Time Magazine Online entitled "Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline." It's from a series by 2 French photographers, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, entitled The Ruins of Detroit (click on the arrow to the bottom left to scroll through the pictures on their site).

It's hard for people outside of Detroit to imagine how many abandoned buildings there really are in this city, but Marchand and Meffre have photos of 14 of those that used to be important and/or beautiful. These photos are really worth a look for the beauty of the photos themselves and for the lost potential revealed in them.