In their 2010 book The Ruins of Detroit, French photographers Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city.
"As Detroit''s white middle class continues to abandon the city center for its dispersed suburbs, and its downtown high-rises empty out, these astounding images, which convey both the imperious grandeur of the city''s architecture and its genuinely shocking decline, preserve a moment that warns us all of the transience of great epochs." - Buy.com
Check out more gorgeous eerie photos of what were once architectural masterpieces now reduced to abandoned derelict ruins here.