AVIA is, or was, also a petroleum company. When I watch British televison, I see AVIA stations on the roadsides.

Definely duckpin...check out the balls. No finger holes.

So you thought you might like to go to the show? I got some bad news for you, Sunshine...

Calgon, take me away!

Could it have once been an operating room? Maybe the adjacent rooms give a clue. Probably not, as there are no overhead, OR-style lights. Also, this building looks too new to have an OR...most state hospitals in recent times send patients to a medical hospital for surgery. Still, looks like an OR or a morgue to me.

Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home....

The little blue jug is....dynamo!

Light starch, please.

Psych rehab today is simply sending the patient home with a bottle of pills, hoping they take them, and wondering why they return in 3 months.

Wow, I've lived 45 minutes away from this place for 40 years and never heard of it before. I must be living under a rock!

There better not be any explosive barrels in there.

Ah, I knew GLaDOS was still alive somewhere.

super photo man, is premier

Whilst I appreciate that you "credit" my site as the source of these images, and they are indeed quite evocative. It might have nice to have been asked in the first place. Still, you have given due credit and the comments are very interesting. Still - it would have been nice . . . Thanks.

Nobody: I almost responded with a quip but then noticed a very bad taste in my mouth, decidedly un-funny.
I'm with you on that one.

Twug: again, you leave me LMAO!

Twug, you jus too bad! LMAO!

I once visited a Metropolitan State mental hospital, but it was in Southern California! Quite different than this obviously. I was only in there about 2 hours and I was very uneasy and scared for at least the first hour. Then for some reason I decided I was going to be OK and I could relax. Creepy though.

These pics are great! I want to select one and write a story around it, but there are so many good photos that awaken the imagination. Maybe someone could make a movie that uses some of these great decaying buildings? Please! There is so much raw feeling and personality that just oozes from each shot. Thanks!
Some of these locations look incredibly dangerous (falls, asbestos, mold, vagrants, etc.) and I hope you take great care!

Good place to hide from the zombies, then.

The controllable parameters of equipment in power plants, refineries and similar places are: Pressure, Temperature, and Flow. In most cases the control loops are very similar, consisting of a sensor that sends data to the controller, which in turn sends a signal to open or close a valve.
I used to have to change about 35 circle charts a night and they're tricky. We're better off without 'em believe me. But I DID find out that a strong updraft from an overhead fin cooler will shoot a stack of circle charts 200 to 300 feet in the air! hehehe :-)

Yeah Ed, I learned a lot of poop from "Road to Wellville."

Homer had his arm stuck in the soda machine for several hours. Finally rescue worker says, "Homer, let go of the can."

It has a sort of a 'sub-marine' quality. With the colors and angle of the shot and that eerie quality I almost can feel the confused and hazy drugged underwater nightmare. Creepy yet dreamy. I love it.