Previously: Zombie Subdivisions. There’s a reason I’ve tagged an “-ish” to the heading of this installment of “Abandoned”: St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. isn’t totally abandoned. A Continue Reading > about Abandoned(-ish): The Half-Life Of St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. (Photos)
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Encyclopaedia of the Impossible: The Cooper Family Falling Body (And) Photograph
Previously: Kunekune. Type: Unclassifiable. MO and EV are the strongest possibilities, although in the absence of further information, a classification is not possible to be made at this Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia of the Impossible: The Cooper Family Falling Body (And) Photograph
Abandoned: The Ghost Town Of Bodie, California (Photos)
Previously: Coco Palms Resort. In the low mountain range lying to the east of the Sierra Nevadas lies a town that, literally, time forgot. It’s called Bodie, California, and it’s a ghost town in Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Ghost Town Of Bodie, California (Photos)
Abandoned: What Happened To Coco Palms Resort? (Photos)
Previously: Geauga Lake. In 1961, Elvis Presley arrived in Hawai'i for a very specific reason: To shoot the first of three films he would film at various islands across the state. Called Blue Continue Reading > about Abandoned: What Happened To Coco Palms Resort? (Photos)
Abandoned: All That Remains Of Connecticut’s Norwich State Hospital (Photos)
Previously: Wonderland Amusement Park. Sprawled across 900 acres in Preston and Norwich, Connecticut was once one of the most notorious psychiatric institutions in the United States. Opened in Continue Reading > about Abandoned: All That Remains Of Connecticut’s Norwich State Hospital (Photos)
Abandoned: Wonderland Amusement Park, The “Fake Disneyland” of Beijing, China (Photos)
Previously: Williams Grove Amusement Park. In the Changping District of China, some 20 miles outside of Beijing, the ruins of an abandoned castle once rose out of the desolate landscape. The castle Continue Reading > about Abandoned: Wonderland Amusement Park, The “Fake Disneyland” of Beijing, China (Photos)
Abandoned: The Skeletal Remains Of Williams Grove Amusement Park, Mechanicsburg, PA (Photos)
Previously: Kings Park Psychiatric Center. There’s something about abandoned amusement parks that I always find particularly arresting. Maybe it’s knowing that thousands of people once passed Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Skeletal Remains Of Williams Grove Amusement Park, Mechanicsburg, PA (Photos)
Abandoned: Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Long Island, New York (Photos)
Previously: The Ghost Ship McBarge. I realize that perhaps a disproportionate number of the locations I’ve been dealing with in “Abandoned” are former hospitals or psychiatric centers. There's just Continue Reading > about Abandoned: Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Long Island, New York (Photos)