Lizzie

Agreed. I sense a general mushiness of said floor.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

Lizzie

I quell my inner Motts groupie quite often. Have no shame :D

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

guarddog

honey dont let johny eat that paint it could contain lead

Location: Eastern State Penitentiary  Gallery: Behind the Walls

guarddog

electric shock torture for terrorists

Location: Eastern State Penitentiary  Gallery: Behind the Walls

guarddog

ooh lala cool lamp, creepy human experiments, frontal lobebatamy
ooh lala

Location: Eastern State Penitentiary  Gallery: Behind the Walls

guarddog

honey i shrunk thr kids again

Location: Eastern State Penitentiary  Gallery: Behind the Walls

Doran

Makes sense. This photo does seem a little post-apocalyptic, though. :D

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

guarddog

or how about a new movie filmed there honey a shrunk the kids again

Location: Eastern State Penitentiary  Gallery: Behind the Walls

guarddog

i would live there right now im homeless anyway

Location: Eastern State Penitentiary  Gallery: Behind the Walls

Misty Issel

We are a society of waste, why would this be any different.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

Ju

...thaaats depressing.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 136 & 137 (Medical-Surgical)

thomas burgess

the buildings were built with old school carpentry and masson skills and solid oak and the best hard woods fresh cut from the forest thay were built to last hundreds of years not120 150 it would cost multi millions to try to copy and replace the buildings /let alone the cost for the skilled labor to do the work/we have plenty of parking lots /emty lots dont make jobs /or put roofs over peoples heads.give someone a place to live.and save the old woman and have her stay arounde for another 100 or 200 years look at the cost to replace them in 100 or so years verses the cost of the interest on the dollar/to repair them

Location: Adonia State Hospital  Gallery: Spring

thomas burgess

it looks like part of a hand and rotted glove i have seen skin that colar when i was a grave digger years ago some one broke in to a cript and stoll a old womans head man it was a creepy

Location: Crypt of Barons  Gallery: Laid to Rest

Dawn Michelle

Looks like a decaying and descending or ascending set of stairs on a lop-sided wedding cake.

Location: Hotel Sterling  Gallery: River View

nick

thanks motts keep up the good work i really enjoyed this site today alot of stuff here to look at...awesome

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

Dawn Michelle

Wasn't this demolished?

Location: Hotel Sterling  Gallery: River View

lynn v.

i just wanna say thank you motts it is such a treat to find a new post the work you do is amazing and excites me to my very soul i photograph my daughter often at our old cemeteries in cleveland she is an amazing red head with clear blue eyes and has a very sweet/evil look about her you inspire me to take it a bit more serious...oh geez i sound like a groupie dont i

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

pattern

holocaust this, holocaust that. fuck you hollywood

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Josh

I am planning a trip there from Northern Virginia. Who wants in?

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

aezzy

... with a little cleaning this cd be the bathroom of some modern avantgarde city loft ...

Location: Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Creep

aezzy

hard to believe anyones still lives in a place like this - without electricity and with the f´in scary noises at night... man..

Location: Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Creep

Fla. Gator

This facility must have just been vacated. It looks like it is in pristine condition.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

DL

I believe Canada's right that it was American Graffiti. Every year one of the local classic auto clubs hosted a night where that movie was shown, followed by a cruise up and down the pike. In 1987 or so there were so many muscle cars that the entire road shook from McDonalds to Roy Rogers.

Location: Hartford Drive-In  Gallery: Drive Through

Motts

Although most of the hospital shut down in 2003, these wards were closed back in the 1970s.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

Motts

Too many photos, not enough time. It really takes a while to process each photo, write about and tag each one, organize into a gallery, write about the trip, then craft a few paragraphs on the history of the place after researching it.

I still do this today; I hope to post a handful of some recent trips in the Ephemera section every now and then just for fun.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate