Since 2002 Ford Field has been the domed home of the Detroit Lions, and you're beside it. Its designers did something unusual: rather than wrap the whole stadium in new construction, they built it into and around a historic 1920s Hudson's warehouse, whose brick facade still forms one wall of the concourse, an old department-store building grafted onto a modern arena. The roof keeps Detroit football indoors against the brutal Great Lakes winters, and the stadium has hosted a Super Bowl, a Final Four, and countless concerts alongside Lions games.
It sits directly beside the Tigers' ballpark, the two venues forming a compact downtown sports district that helped pull the city's energy back to its center in the early 2000s. The Lions have given their fans long decades of heartbreak and stubborn loyalty in this building. Look for the old warehouse brick along the structure's edge, a century-old facade now wrapped into the body of a stadium that roars on autumn Sundays.