Welcome to Fifty Grande’s Best of the U.S. Bucket List series. This is your one-stop travel guide to the best, most unique and quintessential experiences of a place. Curated by experts, vetted by in-the-know locals, this is all you need to have the best trip ever. If we’ve written a Bucket List, we recommend you go. If it’s on this list, it’s the best the city has to offer right now. Consider this your one-stop answer to “What are the best things to do in Detroit?”
During the American auto boom in the early 20th century, Henry Ford and other innovators set up shop in Detroit as the newly christened Motor City manufactured its way to national prominence. Detroit has always maintained an underdog, nose-to-the-grindstone spirit. Think Eminem laying down a diss track or the “Bad Boys” Pistons throwing elbows. (Get ’em, Larry.) But it has a flip side too — like its international food scene, community art projects and the nation’s second-largest theater district. In essence, it’s a micro view of the country as a whole. Today, Detroit’s still a star city, with plenty to offer in the way of food, culture and entertainment. And like all of our Fifty Grande Best of the U.S. Bucket Lists, this guide will take you through the very best, most unique and quintessential experiences offered here right now. So, let’s get Detroit-ing,
