April 20, 2022
If I pulled over for every abandoned rural home as I blazed through the farm roads of Texas, I might still be on the road right now. But there is only so much time you can spend in the 95 degree heat inside the disgruntle of straggler residents who are Read more…
April 17, 2022
Santa Rosa’s Sun ‘N Sand Motel is partially collapsed and the remaining rooms are scrapped and their doors remain wide open. Parts of the roof are caved in and at least one wall is wide open to the street. Locals are disturbed about its sad state as it has become Read more…
Part 10 of abandoned ruins along Route 66 is the almost-ghost town of Cuervo, New Mexico. I learned after I returned to New York that this place had a strange lure. 😬
Every exit of Route 66 brought new ruins to explore. A few were on my radar, but others were exciting discoveries… like this structure I am calling Old Man Wilkerson’s in the near-ghost town Newkirk. Just one of many towns that began when a rails came, but ended when the Read more…
As fate would have it, I just happened upon an abandoned church on Easter Sunday after pulling off Route 66 for some snacks at the gas station. So I went to church…
I could have stayed at this site for hours.. with a gas station, food mart, truck repair shop and large restaurant (named “Restaurant”) to peruse, it had a little something for everyone–and, though stripped and ransacked, not a ton of vandalism. It used to be Shell Truck Plaza along Route Read more…
The Heart of the Mother Road, I very much enjoyed my stay in Tucumcari, New Mexico. The whole town embraces roadtrip culture as bygone ruins stand next to thriving road establishments in a sort of living museum. Seemingly frozen in time, I was able to book my stay at a Read more…
April 16, 2022
One doesn’t have to explore far beyond the exits of Historic Route 66 to find some dynamic decay. This decay, artifacts of a bygone era of car travel, was the reason for my trip to the area. To follow, the first of a lot of decay I wandered through. Starting Read more…
There’s something about the ground’s dry mustard yellow… like an old mangey mutt’s hide. It crunches at each step and if you stand still long enough, a tumbleweed greets your shins. It provided a nice texture accompaniment to the porous, splintered wood. These modular homes, the first decay of many, Read more…
April 7, 2022
Though I often hit the road on my own, it isn’t too long until I start encountering characters who seem placed in my path deliberately, who contribute pleasant tangents of concentrated humanity out of the woodwork in passing. Perhaps it is of my own manifesting, drawing out from the periphery Read more…
In Orange County, New York sits 258 acres of ruin: the once Greycourt Prison, the once Camp Laguardia. Greycourt Prison, built in 1918 by the City of New York, was for women only. The farm colony 90 minutes north of New York City served to provide “physical, mental and moral Read more…
March 19, 2022
When Building 93 was completely vacated in 1996, only 1/3 of the massive 13 floor structure was in use. Like many large psychiatric hospitals, the advent of psychotropic drugs returned many patients back to their homes. It was Chlorpromazine, or Thorazine, that was the first to offer mentally ill patients Read more…
A quick stop up top of Building 29, Kings Park’s power plant. I was kind of scared by this tremendous half pipe Deep, dark decay Buttons and gages Pretty faded pastels Supplies At Pilgrim State now. I couldn’t resist hitting two farm colonies in one day. But there were kids Read more…
The quest to get in all the remaining structures at The Kings Park State Hospital, aka KPPC, continues! Building 7: Medical-Surgical-X-ray Labs & Clinic It was first back to the morgue–on the ground floor of Building 7. From there we spread out into portions of Building 21, the Brooklyn units. Read more…
February 12, 2022
The Poconos is a mountain region in Pennsylvania that used to be considered the Honeymoon Capitol of the World. Now, some of the popular honeymoon resorts from its swinging 1960’s hey day lay in decay, a testament to the endurance of love… or its manifestation in room decor. The Summit Read more…
January 24, 2022
You have to cherish a friend with the same child-like sense of adventure, one who can–like you–make almost any situation an opportunity for fun. When a night shoot had us both pulled over by a Park Ranger and spoken to by a concerned man tapping on our car window outside Read more…
January 16, 2022
The Mount Tom Ski Resort in Holyoke, Massachusetts operated between 1960 and 1998. Now the hiking routes of Mt. Tom State Reservation, the abandoned ruins have sat within the nature for decades, only accessible by foot. Though I actually climbed Mount Tom in 2008, I never found my way to Read more…
January 1, 2022
Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Niagara Falls, New York has had a fascinating history that, for all intents and purposes, ended in 2003. The site was once Electro Magnetic Sanitarium, in operation from 1901-1906. This unique sanitarium provided treatment for those afflicted with chronic nervous and mental disorders. At the Read more…
December 31, 2021
December 27, 2021
After discovering this bowling alley by chance in a blind exploration, I knew I had to come back with my tripod. You see the room is pitch black except by the doorway, which gave away the function of the dark space with the characteristic seating and bowling shoes strewn about. Read more…