Ford Field

After 27 years of watching the Lions out in suburban Pontiac, Detroit got its team back downtown in 2002 — and Ford Field did it with style, ingeniously folding a century-old Hudson’s warehouse into one side of the stadium so the building feels woven into the city rather than dropped onto it. Its crowning moment came fast: in February 2006 it hosted Super Bowl XL, when the Steelers beat the Seahawks and Detroit threw itself a week-long party in the dead of winter.

It’s also home to the Lions’ beloved Thanksgiving Day tradition, hosts Final Fours and the high-school football state finals, and — after decades of heartbreak — finally has a genuinely thrilling team to fill it. Loud, warm, and unmistakably downtown: everything the Silverdome wasn’t.