While visiting family and friends in Brittany, France, I was driving along a road when I saw a very interesting house hidden among trees and the surrounding foliage. I barely caught it. I urged my friend to stop the car … Continue reading Abandoned in Brittany
Over a year ago I traveled to Hinsdale NY by way of Buffalo. I usually take this yearly trip around the late fall and head into Olean for the night, heading into Hinsdale the next day to work at the local school. … Continue reading Photos along NY-16
Descent into despair, hopelessness and madness in the bowels of Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. For those unfortunate men and women who resided here, this was perhaps their last stop before their descent into purgatory – or maybe they live in between … Continue reading Descent
For this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge I am choosing to depict the famous and often controversial landmark in the capital of the Dominican Republic, known as Faro a Colón – the Columbus Lighthouse for you non-spanish speakers. What makes this monument highly … Continue reading Faro a Colón (Columbus Lighthouse)
Today’s weekly challenge is just perfect for me as I’ve been highly interested in the subject of abandoned places and things. The practice of going into forbidden, rundown, and closed locations is known as urban exploration or urbex for short. … Continue reading Abandoned: Château de Vaurouault
There’s a house on the hill of 187th street between Wadsworth Avenue and Broadway that was very peculiar. The hill that this house is located on is affectionately nicknamed “church hill” because at the top of the hill on Wadsworth … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie
How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? French fries. Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma. ~~ James French, d. 1966 Sitting in a cell waiting for your time to be up; cell block 15 was the last of … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow
In the late evening of October 30, 1938, a massive tremor “of almost earthquake intensity” occurred near Princeton, NJ. Several moments later, around 8:50pm, a “huge flaming object, believed to be a meteorite,” crashed into an empty field in New … Continue reading Where the Martians Landed
Cyans Skies 