Recently Added Entries (page two):
The Hotel Adler Spa and Resort Sharon Springs New York | After a long break from working on this website I'm going to start adding places again(slowly). I'm starting with some photos of The Hotel Alder in Sharon Springs recently taken by J.L.Drew. (16 photos 2016) Added - 06/26/2016
Kellogg Idaho | A center of the Coeur d'Alene mining district. (7 photos 2014) Added - 12/20/2014
Roanoke Rapids North Carolina | Small textile manufacturing city recovering from the closure of textile mills. (14 photos - 2011 - 2014) Updated - 10/30/2014
Weldon North Carolina | Lower terminus of the 1823 Roanoke Canal which is being redeveloped as a walking path. Weldon has two preserved, historic mills and a nicely preserved turn-of-the-century downtown. (21 photos - 2014) Added - 10/28/2014
Garnet Montana | Well preserved 1890s ghost town. (9 photos - 2014) Added - 10/24/2014
Hoquiam Washington | Early 1900s lumber boomtown which has experienced a slow, steady decline since the 1930s. (6 photos - 2014) Added - 10/22/2014
Aberdeen Washington | Early 1900s lumber boomtown. Has stabilized after declining for much of the late 1900s. (11 photos - 2014) Added - 10/22/2014
Mackay Mine Hill, Idaho | Touring route on dirt roads through an abandoned mining district above the town of Mackay. Includes White Knob townsite. (34 photos - 2014) Added - 9/13/2014
Basin Montana | Former mining town with the ruins of a smelter and two radon "health mines". (6 photos - 2014) Added - 9/4/2014
Bayhorse Idaho | Ghost town that has recently become an Idaho State Park. (14 photos - 2014) Added - 9/4/2014
Yreka, California | Nicely preserved gold rush town. (13 photos - 2014) Added - 9/3/2014
Bannack Montana | Very well executed ghost town/history park. (22 photos - 2014) Added - 9/2/2014
Govan Washington | Beautiful abandoned school on the site of a former village. (4 photos - 2014) Added - 9/2/2014
Danville, Virginia | Dan River Mills, Schoolfield mill complex - which is slowly being demolished. (21 photos - 2014) Added with photos by Damon Lapas - 9/1/2014
Yankee Fork Dredge, Idaho | A 988 ton piece of mining equipment that was abandoned on the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River. It has been restored and is currently maintained. (8 photos - 2014) Added - 9/1/2014
Bonanza Idaho | Ghost town on the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River. (17 photos - 2014) Added - 9/1/2014
Elkhorn Montana | 1880s-90s silver rush ghost town. (11 photos - 2014) Added - 9/1/2014
Burke Idaho | Ghost town with a fascinating labor history and a massive, empty, silver mine complex. (13 photos - 2014) Added - 8/31/2014
Wallace Idaho | The commercial heart of the Coeur d'Alene mining district. (7 photos - 2014) Added - 8/31/2014
Granite (Ghost Town) Montana | Ghost Town and extensive remains of a large mine, mill and tramway. (29 photos - 2014) Added - 8/30/2014
Satsop Nuclear Power Plant, Washington | A nuclear power plant construction project that was halted in 1983 when it was 76% complete. The plant was never operational. The site is now a business park. (9 photos - 2014) Added - 8/30/2014
Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, Idaho | A museum devoted to the world's first nuclear power plant. Two nuclear powered jet engine prototypes sit outside the museum next to the parking lot. (9 photos - 2014) Added - 8/29/2014
Comet Montana | Ghost town - not currently being preserved or developed for tourism. (8 photos - 2014) Added - 8/29/2014
Windber Pennsylvania: Here I try to clear up some nonsense about an alleged "apocalyptic train graveyard" In North Carolina. Crappy journalism by the Daily Mail UK led to a click-bait/ruin-porn type article going viral. Almost nothing in the widely republished article is true. 7/30/2014
Photographing the Milky Way | Where I try to share what I know about taking photos of the Milky Way and night sky. (10 photos - 2014) Added - 7/25/2014
Mebane North Carolina | Abandoned White Furniture Company factory. (26 photos - 2014) Added, with a bunch of recent photos from Damon Lapas. 7/24/2014
Bellemont North Carolina | Textile mill ruins. (19 photos - 2007 - 2013) Updated with a new photos from Damon Lapas in 2013. - 7/24/2014
Franklinville North Carolina | Small textile mill town with a ruined mill. (1 photo - 2006) Updated with a bunch of new photos of the mill taken Damon Lapas during a recent visit. - 7/24/2014
Monrovia Liberia | The Ducor Hotel, abandoned after the 1989 civil war. (26 photos - 2013) Added - 7/7/2014
Pripyat Ukraine | Town that was abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. (40 photos - 2014) Added - 7/6/2014
Chernobyl Ukraine | Site of the world's worst nuclear power disaster. (40 photos - 2014) Added - 7/6/2014
Photographing Lightning, Utah | Where I try to share what I've learned about photographing lightning. (14 photos - 2013) Added - 6/6/2014
Alabama Hills and Whitney Portal, California | Incredibly scenic and underdeveloped natural area. (22 photos - 2010-2014) Added - 6/2/2014
Locke California | Early 1900s rural Chinese ghetto in a remarkable state of preservation/arrested decay. (10 photos - 9/12/2010) Updated - 5/29/2014
Columbia California | 1849 gold rush town, preserved as a "history park". (5 photos - 2014) Added - 5/29/2014
Death Valley National Park, California | Amazing 5,270 square mile park with alien landscapes and lots of empty space. (31 photos 2011-2014) Added - 5/28/2014
Goldfield Nevada | Gold mining town that boomed from 1902-1910. (15 photos - 2014) Added - 4/16/2014
Darwin, California | Small old mining town next to a large, closed, and gated off mining operation. (7 photos - 2014) Added - 4/16/2014
Boron Air Station, California | Post-apocalyptic, abandoned Air Force radar station and prison. (15 photos - 2014) Added - 4/16/2014
Fort Ord, California | Large decommissioned Army base in varying states of decay and redevelopment. (24 photos - 2013) Updated - 1/23/2014
Jackson California | Bustling gold rush town with extensive remains of two large mines which closed in the 1940s. (23 photos - 2011-2014) Updated - 1/20/2014
Isleton California | Unique, historic, Sacramento Delta town with remnants of a once large Chinese community. (14 photos - 2014) Updated - 1/15/2014
Fort Knox Maine | Civil War era brick and stone fort with some fun to walk through and photograph, very dark lower passageways. (13 photos - 2013) Added - 1/3/2014
Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania | A former coal port that in a desperate bid to save itself, in 1953, renamed itself after the recently deceased athlete - Jim Thorpe. (3 photos - 2013) Added - 1/3/2014
Ste. Genevieve Missouri | Well preserved French colonial town on the Mississippi river. (12 photos - 2013) Added - 1/2/2014
Madison Indiana | One of the most nicely preserved 19th century towns I've seen with an interesting cotton mill reuse project. (10 photos - 2013) Added - 12/31/2013
Buffalo Central Terminal, New York | Huge 1930 passenger rail terminal saved from abandonment in the 1990s and very slowly being restored. (14 photos - 2013) Added - 12/31/2013
Buffalo Grain Silos and South Lakeshore New York | Mammoth abandoned grain silos along Buffalo Creek and the Lake Erie shore. (25 photos - 2013) Added - 12/31/2013
Rockingham North Carolina | Several closed textile mills including one incredible 19th century mill ruin. (37 photos - 2013) Added - 12/27/2013
Lackawanna New York | Site of what was once the largest steel plant in the world (demolished/empty). (3 photos - 2013) Added - 12/15/2013
Hadenville Ohio | Company town with many homes built with glazed drainage brick produced at the local brick factory. (10 photos - 2013) Added - 12/15/2013
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico | Largest concentration of pre-Columbian ruins in the United States. (37 photos - 2013) Added - 12/15/2013
Cahokia Mounds, Illinois | The site of the largest pre-European city in what is now the United States. (9 photos - 2013) Added - 12/13/2013
Youngstown Ohio | America's fastest shrinking city. (3 photos - 2013) Added - 12/12/2013
Lowell Massachusetts | Large, historic, planned industrial city. Home of Lowel National Historic Park. (12 photos - 2013) Added - 12/3/2013
Kings Mills (Peters Cartridge CO.) Ohio | A large, badly deteriorated ammunition factory. (9 photos - 2013) Added - 12/2/2013
Confluence Tower, Hartford Illinois | Very large, expensive monument built by a very small town in the middle of nowhere. (5 photos - 2013) Added - 12/1/2013
Holyoke Massachusetts | A large planned industrial city suffering from population loss/abandonment. (14 photos - 2013) Added - 12/1/2013
Chinese Camp California | Semi-ghost town built by Chinese miners during the 1849 gold rush. (12 photos - 2011) Updated - 11/28/2013
Missouri Mines State Historic Site Missouri | Lead mine and mill preserved in a state of arrested decay with small museum. (34 photos - 2013) Added - 11/28/2013
Bethlehem Pennsylvania | Home of the sprawling and closed Bethlehem Steel Works. (34 photos - 2013) Added - 11/26/2013
Austin Nevada | Small, old mining town on the "Loneliest Road". (8 photos - 2013) Added - 11/25/2013
Shawneetown Illinois | A town that mostly moved away from the Ohio River to avoid flooding. (10 photos - 2013) Added - 11/24/2013
Needles Overlook/Wind Whistle Campground Utah | Spectacular and under-used Canyonlands overlook and campground. (21 photos - 2013) Added - 11/24/2013
Badin North Carolina | Small town built around an aluminum plant that has recently closed. (5 photos - 2013) Added - 11/15/2013
Fisher Towers Utah | Great seldom used campground near Moab. Great spot for night and other photography. (14 photos - 2013) Added - 11/15/2013
Marcus Hook Pennsylvania | Very small community completely surrounded by oil refineries and decaying industry. (5 photos - 2013) Added - 11/15/2013
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