'Everybody builds but no one maintains'

"There is something evocative about ruins--particularly recent ones."
~ Joel Knight in Calico Black, Calico Blue

"Ever since I was 2, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings."
~ China Miéville, English fantasy fiction writer

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and no one wants to do maintenance."
~ Kurrt Vonnegut, in Hocus Pocus

Andreas

Norristown State Hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania

The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas

Packard automobile plant in Detroit

Bolivian worker, by Marcos Zimmerman

Photo by Robert Colgan

Adrian Udrea Aecrim

Lichreich Photography

Ron Amato Photography

Wes Ykema