Little Caesars Arena

This is where Detroit’s hockey and basketball histories finally converged. When LCA opened in 2017, it pulled the Pistons back from the suburbs — their first time in the city since 1978 — and reunited them under one roof with the Red Wings, the first time the two had shared a building since 1961. The move made Detroit the only U.S. city with all four major-league teams playing downtown.

It’s a thoroughly modern arena, glass-roofed concourse and the surrounding District Detroit and all — but it carries its ghosts on purpose: the salvaged “Olympia” letters from the Old Red Barn are built into the structure, so a piece of the Wings’ 1927 home lives inside their newest one. Every former home on this trail — Olympia, the Joe, the Silverdome, the Palace — leads here.