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Lost City in the Woods

owhydididoit — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:10:21 -0800

North Brother Island has cool birdsand old buildings. It used to be a quarantine zone for victims of infectious disease. Previously.

One Can Only Imagine What Kind of Development Took Place Here

Gator — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:12:56 -0800

Abandoned Memories is short on text but thick with photos. Even without captions for every picture, contextual clues can give us a disturbing idea of what life might have been like in the Wayne County Child Development Center (before it was abandoned, razed, and turned into a golf course). The rather-less-easy-to-navigate Northville-Tunnels.com also has photos and information.

Modern Ruins Photo Gallery

jonson — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 10:27:51 -0800

There have been a number of urban exploration or modern ruins photography posts here over the years, but I couldn't find any that linked to my new favorite modern ruin site, opacity.us. With 85 galleries of subjects as gorgeous as Bannerman's Arsenal and as haunting as the Verden Psychiatric Hospital, it's a treasure trove of entropy on film.

Charm city in ruins ...

ryanshepard — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 07:24:05 -0800

Baltimore ghosts: a methodical, obsessive and beautiful (the photos, anyway) addition to the modern ruins genre - the essays on the Lutheran Hospital and the Bay Shore Shuttle are especially interesting.

Modern Ruins

anastasiav — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:09:58 -0800

Mustard Gas Party :: Photographs of Modern Ruins

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. -- J W Krutch

anastasiav — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:00:55 -0800

New England Ruins :: Photographs

3rd reich in ruins

crunchland — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:56:17 -0800

The Third Reich In Ruins