there's guys that were storing cars. >> so how long has it been like this though? >> most of this damage happenend within five years. >> within the last five years? >> yeah. >> wow. >> china had this olympia effort. scrap metal went to a high price, so people would come in here and scrap it. they took the windows out, they just destroyed everything. >> the place is pretty much open to anybody who wants to come in. >> sure. a lot of urban explorers. people shooting music videos, taking pictures. oftentimes you see a wedding party come here. and they use this as a backdrop for their wedding, and take pictures, videos. >> wow. you want to take pictures here. the place, like so much of detroit, invites it. urban exploring, as they call it, sifting through the remains of detroit's great american ongoing tragedy, photographing them, posing in front of them, is something of an iiresistable impulse. detroiters hate it. all the visitors like us, i should point out, wallowing in ruin porn.