Abandoned

Harrisburg State Hospital, Pennsylvania's first public asylum, has been mostly torn down for a $450 million state lab complex—and taking a harder question with it.

Weirton's 2024 shutdown was the final blow in a slow 60-year decline: how "mini" mills, legacy costs, and lost marketshare undid American blast furnace steel.

A century ago, a stretch of riverfront in Kenova, West Virginia was home to a revolving door of industry, a steel company that collapsed within two years, a mine car manufacturer born from merger, and a spark plug maker turned insulator giant that survived

A quiet, undetected walk through a hidden Volkswagen graveyard in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, where decades-old Beetles and Buses sit reclaimed by the forest.

While traveling late at night to a campsite in rural northern West Virginia, I did a double-take when I passed what looked like an abandoned general store and hotel.

The abandoned Adena Branch of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway follows a former coal-hauling route through the hills of eastern Ohio.

Explore the history of the Wheeling, West Virginia, iron and steel district, from its early nail mills to its long decline.

In 2016, I spent a day tracing the remnants of the former Wheeling Terminal Railway across the hills surrounding downtown Wheeling, West Virginia.

In eastern Ohio, the story of one railroad mirrored the rise and decline of regional heavy industry.

A road trip through Michigan nearly a decade ago centered on its Lake Huron lighthouses, but the journey extended beyond...

About a decade ago, while traveling north along US 23 toward Cheboygan, I came across these cottages.

On a snow-covered winter afternoon in Washington County, Pennsylvania, I followed rural backroads to document a handful of historic landmarks.

A 19th-century pig iron blast furnace was more than a single stack: it was a carefully engineered industrial system built into the landscape itself.

Travel into the snowy hills of northern West Virginia to document early three charcoal iron furnaces.

Driving west along Interstate 74 at sunrise, I caught sight of the trees that once framed Fairland Recreation Park.

The Mead Paper Company’s Chillicothe Works was one of Ohio’s largest paper mills, symbolizing over a century of industrial progress in Ohio.

The Barnes House, once a prominent residence in the Scioto River Valley, now stands in a state of severe neglect.

The Ravenswood, Spencer & Glenville Railway, incorporated in 1886, once linked Ravenswood and Spencer, West Virginia.

Once a booming lead and zinc mining town, Picher, Oklahoma, is now known as one of America’s most toxic ghost towns.

Near Miami, Oklahoma, a nine-foot stretch of pavement survives as the only remaining section of old U.S.