October 29, 2024
Like an obedient consumer, I love a good 2-for. Cheap price for two things I don’t need, yes! But in adventuring, a good 2-for is even more exciting. So when there are ruins of an old amusement park in a gorgeous scenic park in the peak of the foliage season, Read more…
Old military defenses make for good exploration–the cumbersome, concrete, utilitarian. When they are decorated elaborately by taggers, it creates an interesting visual. The ruins are easily accessible, adjacent to the parking lot. But please take note, it is a gay cruising spot. As I drove down to access the isolated Read more…
October 18, 2024
As if to give me everything I wanted, after a yummy vegan lunch in nearby Bolivar, WV, we found the ruins of the Shenandoah Pulp Factory in nearby Harpers Ferry. The old pulp mill was impressive and surrounded by this delightful bright green sludge. Though the structure was impressive, I Read more…
October 9, 2024
Feeling the urge to see as much as I can before I am no longer living in the DC area, I chased down another place on my list while being on Short Call Reserve. This abandoned church is one of two in the woods–relics of a ghost town. With a Read more…
September 5, 2024
This bizarre radar dome was part of Nike Missile Launch Site W-83 back during the Cold War days. Time moved on and grew a community in the space that once were the grounds, but this thing remains. It is out of place next to some baseball fields attached to an Read more…
August 26, 2024
This place had us doing a 3-point turn on a one-lane 70 mph state road… an old bar with some great details and a mobile home out back. It announces “You loot; we shoot.” I wish I could take this vintage rug-covered bar Another amazing rug Vintage ads A decaying Read more…
August 18, 2024
When the GPS put me through Staten Island, I knew I had to stop at the Farm Colony. Last time I visited there was some indicators of activity. But this time, stumbling upon a man named Joe walking his dog in the grounds, I learned that that activity had something Read more…
August 14, 2024
August 2, 2024
When I saw that this active military base in New Mexico’s desert welcomes visitors to their museum, I knew I would be checking out the “Birthplace of America’s Missile and Space Activity.” Conducting more than 3,000 missile tests annually, the facility often closes roads to the nearby White Sands National Monument. On Read more…
I had never been to El Paso, Texas. This in itself was a reason to head there on my day off. In my head it was a quiet little border town, steeped in the rich combination of two cultures. The latter was true, but the “quiet and little” not so. Read more…
June 22, 2024
So it was the most secure I’ve ever seen it, but that isn’t saying much. Many of the newest boards are already being eaten away by enthusiastic explorers. My goal was to get into the morgue, but that didn’t happen. So I just checked out some of the tried and Read more…
Sure, there was record-breaking heat and humidity… but there was a mysterious abandoned bunker we had to hike to! Does anyone know what or who this underground storage was for?
May 27, 2024
A quick drive from Los Angeles, the first operation missile base in the country sits decaying on top of a mountain. The base was one of 16 in California which were collectively known as the Ring of Steel. Following the fear of Russia’s nuclear proliferation during The Cold War, Read more…
May 14, 2024
The first federally owned psychiatric hospital in the U.S., The Government Hospital for the Insane opened in 1855 in Washington DC. Though the expansive campus is undergoing redevelopment, many buildings remain in a state of decay–awaiting their turn for repurposing. And like the many historic large and overcrowded psychiatric complexes Read more…
May 11, 2024
April 13, 2024
This historically registered early 1900’s schoolhouse sits on the end of a road in Lando, South Carolina. When Lando was a textile mill town, the mill workers’ children attended this 3-story school, but it hasn’t held a class since 1955.
April 2, 2024
After a ride through the mountains I was at Lake Shawnee’s grounds for a tour. Long on my list, the grounds were teeming with life though dormant for quite some time. Read through its sorted past here.
April 1, 2024
Wheeler, West Virginia has an interesting lure… an overlook on Mt. Wood, next to Mt. Wood Cemetery, where an abandoned brightly vandalized decay sits. Construction of the Mt. Wood Castle, the would-be residence of a local doctor, had been underway when he was indicted for sale of narcotics. I made Read more…
March 5, 2024
February 27, 2024
February 5, 2024
On the way back to Western New York, a quick abandoned stop that has long been on my bucket list. Though I cannot even recall how or when I learned of an abandoned observatory near the grounds of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, a landmark of passing on Read more…
December 29, 2023
As promised a few years ago, a visit to King Zog’s estate in the barren winter. Thwarted at two previous visits, I finally saw the ruins of these ruins, formerly the Knollwood Estate. It was purchased by the exiled ruler of Albania, King Zog, in 1951. But King Zog, who Read more…
December 6, 2023
November 19, 2023
A quick drive from Rochester is Rolling Hills Asylum, formerly The Genesee County Poor Farm and now a haunted attraction. I took the self-guided tour and was lucky enough to be the only visitor who showed up! To follow are some of my favorite shots of the day…
November 4, 2023
Ok, so this amusement park isn’t abandoned per se, but it is vacated for the winter season… shut down and stripped of its colorful cars… and exuding the same eerie energy. I captured the vacant color close to dusk on a brisk autumn day. The structures seemed to pang for Read more…
October 21, 2023
Austin Dam Memorial Park In all its spectacular color, and in spite of the persistent rain, we went to see the sights at Austin Dam Memorial Park in Austin, Pennsylvania. The ruins of the dam are in it of itself cause for a stop in… but in autumn, the surrounding Read more…