Abandoned Italy

The third post in a series on last month’s urbex trip to Italy. To start, here is a former military hospital in southern Italy. Built at the height of Mussolini’s fascist rule in streamline moderne style, it covers a large swath of land in the middle if Bari. Though the buildings are mostly barren and … Continue reading Abandoned Italy

St. James Infirmary

Located in downtown Butte, Montana, St. James hospital had been closed since 1962, and abandoned for decades. When we arrived in town on our recent road trip, we thought we’d have a go at shooting the building. When we rolled up we quickly saw that, though it was rough condition, the place was well sealed … Continue reading St. James Infirmary

Vandalia State Hospital

The largest psychiatric hospital in the world once operated in a small, nondescript southern town. From its founding in the early nineteenth century, it steadily grew as the decades passed and as the treatments it offered evolved from the primitive to the merely misguided. Ultimately, the idea of keeping the mentally ill locked away en … Continue reading Vandalia State Hospital