Ruins, calamity and disaster

This posting was inspired by the off-chance that Mitt Romney was elected President.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active--not more happy--nor more wise, than he was 6,000 years ago.

~Edgar Allen Poe

Ballroom at Lee Plaza Hotel in Detroit

Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 Control Panel 

Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania 

Mansion

Walker Pass near Mojave, California

Hallway of Abandoned Hotel