The street appears broken. A burnt-out shell of a car robbed of its wheels sits in a patch of overgrown grass. Alongside sits a house, unloved for years. Where glass windows once were, there are only black squares, and a lone curtain billows outwards in the breeze. We prop our bikes up, and gaze down the road, where identical houses echo the same sense of disrepair and neglect. They are separated by empty plots of land, where houses have been torn down and grass has grown over their foundations.
From bankrupt to blooming - the US's newest city break destination
Destinations
Sophie Griffiths
20 August 2015
Detroit may not be an obvious city break choice, but a new route from Virgin Atlantic puts it firmly in the spotlight: Sophie Griffiths finds an edgy American city with a story to tell
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