Empty skyscrapers are always stealthy–they blend in with their busy neighbors with strange ease. Maybe it’s because people in the city are always looking town. Here’s a chance to look up–way up–at one of St. Louis’ longtime abandonments.
history under ground
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Arcade-Wright Building
Atlas & Titan Nuclear Missile Bases
Wyoming & Colorado
In the 1950s, the United States designed and built two competing offensive nuclear missile systems, Atlas and Titan. Here’s what these Cold War relics look like today, inside and out.
Buckstaff Furniture
Oshkosh, WI
Coffin factory funerals are not often so solemn. Read why this famous furniture factory closed after 160 years and see how it looks today.
Bureau of Mines Research Center
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis was the home of the regional offices of the US Bureau of Mines, an organization founded in 1910 as part of the Department of the Interior. Bureau of Mines was founded in the wake […]
Chateau Miranda
(Castle Noisy)
Belgium
From a family home, to a Nazi retreat, to a children’s home, this crumbling castle in rural Belgium has a lot of stories to tell.
Daisy & The East End Mills
Superior, WI
Daisy Rolling Mill was one of many flour mills built in the 1890s in an area then known as the East End Milling District, but it alone survived a devastating fire in 1914. It was the last of its kind in the Twin Ports when Peavey closed it in the 1970s.
Draining Zenith City
Duluth, MN
The underground history of some of Duluth’s most notable sewers, drains, and substreet creeks.
Duluth & Iron Range Dock Six
Two Harbors, MN
A Poem
In nineteen-oh-nine when the winds blew colder,
Nine-hundred and twenty feet long…
Duluth Armory
Duluth, MN
This armory was built in 1915 for the 3rd Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard. During the World Wars, it was a place where troops would train and muster, and where equipment was stored. Occasionally, […]
Falstaff Brewery
Saint Louis, MO
A dead brewery marks the graves of four others on the outside of St. Louis, the new Detroit. It’s been empty longer than I’ve been alive, and things are not looking up…
Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fergus Falls, MN
Why write, who cares? The door asked… I guess I just didn’t have an answer. I’ll keep doing my thing, I thought, and you keep doing yours. Now, how best to capture the fingernail scratches around this padded room’s peep hole?