I featured a particular parochial school in the previous post, and in this follow up I’ll showcase a couple public schools I was able to explore. One of these is pretty well known among the urbex community and I figure it’ll get recognized by those in the know, but I’ll keep them anonymous nonetheless. Detroit … Continue reading Detroit, Part 2
When I recently came across some good info on potential bandos to hit in the Motor City, I picked a balmy weekend and made the trek out to this mecca of American urbex. It had been some years since my last visit, and I was very excited to see how the city had changed and … Continue reading Detroit, Part 1
(last of the Utah series) There was no better way to wrap up these posts from our trip to Utah than at the Valley of the Gods. This aptly named valley is an area of fantastically weathered sandstone formations in the southeast corner of Utah, just across the Arizona border from the similar but more … Continue reading The Valley of the Gods
(second in the Utah series) Besides some of the more famous national parks, we decided to visit the Bentonite Hills outside of Capitol Reef National Park. Though not part of the park, the U.S. National Park Service maintains a page about them, which can give you a quick rundown of the interesting geology of the … Continue reading Exploring the Unique Bentonite Hills of Utah
A return to Gary, the struggling steel town about 45 minutes outside Chicago, is always welcome. I spent so much time here when I started in photography that there isn’t much here I haven’t seen, and yet I feel I always come away with some fresh shots. And, as my avocation has become more ambitious … Continue reading Gary, Winter
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
Labor Day weekend found me in the rolling Appalachian mountains of West Virginia. It was a showery weekend, making for very humid hiking, but making for a moody, misty atmosphere that felt like that state at its most iconic. On Sunday’s hike, my friend did the splits involuntarily while crossing a very slippery stream and … Continue reading Country Roads, Take Me Home
The Sterick building in downtown Memphis has the demeanor of a deposed queen, who, despite having lost her power and much of her wealth, has lost none of her grace and haughtiness and remains the focal point of the city’s skyline. When finished in 1930, she was said to be the tallest building of the … Continue reading The Sterick, Dowager Empress of Memphis
Last weekend we had a short outing to an abandoned school a state over. Considering we were prepared for the entire thing to be a bust, it turned out to be a modest success. The building was boarded up, so it was uncertain whether or not we could even get in. . .For all the … Continue reading A School in the Dunes
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