Michigan Central Station is the grandfather of all urban ruins. It is a truly spectacular building, even in its current state. It looks like a building that you might have seen in Berlin after the end of World War II, but no, this is Detroit in 2005. The station looms over the surrounding neighborhood, a hulking structure that nobody knows what to do with. It's too expensive to rehabilitate, and demolition is too costly to be an effective option. It will cost upwards of $200 million - and possibly as much as $400 million - to restore it, and only someone like Donald Trump would have that kind of cash to throw around. Until someone comes along with a viable plan, we're resigned to dreaming about a renovated Michigan Central Station.