Tourist Resorts in Detroit: Eastern Market, Motown Museum & Detroit Zoo

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 1, 2006 -- Eastern Market
Eastern Market is a gigantic semi-covered farmers' market, held every Saturday rain or shine, that sells everything from goats to olive oil. It attracts farmers and consumers from as far as Florida, plus Martha Stewart devotees in fur coats and panhandlers singing the blues. There's no better place in Detroit for people watching or picnic packing. The area surrounding the market is also great for cheap eats. The market lies on the northeast outskirts of downtown.

Motown Museum

A young, black Detroiter, Berry Gordy Jr, started Motown in 1959, naming it after his city's loose way of shortening its 'Motor City' moniker. Confident and cocky, he bought a house in the northern part of Detroit, built a studio and quickly put a sign on his new company that read 'Hitsville USA.' The sign still sits on the roof. Once the hits - by artists like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations and the Supremes - really started hitting, Gordy bought six other houses on the block. The museum features a short video introduction to Motown's history and then you're off for a tour through the original recording studio, passing through rooms full of photos, album covers, newspaper clippings, gold records and Michael Jackson's black hat and sequined glove. Though at times a bit kitschy, it's hard not to get wrapped up in the history and good times that the Motown sound represents.

Detroit Zoo

Opened in 1928, the Detroit Zoo was one of the first to have barless animal exhibits, developing a system of moats and other natural barriers to keep hungry lions, tigers and bears away from grandma and the kids. The Penguin House is the most fun of all. The zoo's goal is to provide a natural habitat for its animals, who number in the thousands and include over 50 endangered and threatened species, as well as two that are extinct in the wild. Over a million people visit the zoo every year. The zoo also has a reputation for technological savvy, with state of the art graphical kiosks accompanying many of the lounging animals.

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