This is a photo featured on a blog run by Richard Nickel, Jr.
Go there. It makes towers of ilium look puny.
The stock of built infrastructure and architecture in this nation is staggering. I conservatively estimate that there are 75 million buildings in the U.S. That includes houses, high-rises, toolsheds, barns, train stations and outhouses. If abandoned buildings only account for 1% of 1% of that number then that's 7500 places that are disintegrating into oblivion. Every single one of them has a story to tell--every single one has some collection of features that reflect an aesthetic decision on the part of someone, even if it's the graffiti on a concrete wall.
Oh well, ripeness is all.
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