12 Ghostly Industrial Relics: Factories & Mines Frozen in Their Prime
2. Packard Automotive Plant, Detroit, USA
Once the pride of Detroit’s motor age, the Packard Plant sprawls across 40 acres of crumbling innovation. In its prime, it was a marvel of early 20th-century industrial design, producing luxury cars and shaping automotive history. After its closure in the 1950s, time crept in—windows shattered, ivy grew wild, and graffiti turned its cavernous assembly lines into a street art gallery. The skeletal remains of catwalks, stairwells, and rusted conveyors still suggest movement, even as silence dominates. Walking through it today feels like wandering through an abandoned cathedral to American manufacturing—grand, decayed, and heavy with what once was.
