Makes me melancholy

[musictwig]

Makes me wonder about the people who built these places, lived and laughed and loved and hated in them. So many stories untold... It also amazes me that so many of these places are wide open and are allowed to linger on indefinitely. Nothing boarded up, no apparent safety concerns, they sit for years without being torn down. Crazy.

http://www.jamesgriffioen.net/ (especially love the bits about the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository

http://www.dirjournal.com/info/abandoned-places-in-the-world/

http://daddu.net/photos-of-abandoned-buildings-modern-day-ruins/

http://daddu.net/the-poetry-of-forgotten-places/

Looking at all these photos made me think of this site about the Chernobyl area:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm