Sometime in the 2010s I learned about the old Visteon/Ford car plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 2010 about half of the plant was torn down, but a lot was left behind. I actually later checked google earth, and people later leased it for warehouse space. Today there is power in the building but it is mostly empty. I discovered this when, the loading door was opened with a rusty shrieking noise. The building stank like mildew too. I snooped around the outside of the old facility anyway.
This is a satellite image of the plant in 2007
From the park across the highway
Some video game type crates
I thought these huge metal tanks looked pretty cool
For some reason they thought it was a good idea to put a wall of bricks behind the windows.
Some nice piping inside the building by the tanks, in the last photo you can see some of the cut pipes
A broken ladder beyond repair I discovered at the roof, the heat is warping the edges of the photo
The building is falling apart in some areas, especially on the brick facade.
This area used to be more building that was torn down for no specified reason
Rusty racks
There were several large piles of junk like this, an entire sink??
About 30 unused filters in metal crates, with an oddly placed Ford logo
Today only one is operated; the light on it was flashing
Another tank pipe house
The old powerhouse machine mounts
Account for your workers You can access this area by boat if you want
The trussed bridge to the main parking lot
This surprised me but it was cool that they had these signs for visitors, plant manager, director manufacturing and vice president manufacturing
It's pretty, but clean the windows.
That's how I accidentally stumbled into a semi-abandoned site, it was a cool exterior urbex though.