Paramount Hotel

This place was an absolute labyrinth of different wings built in different eras. The original house that started it all as a boarding house was deep in the center.

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Brown's Hotel in the Catskills.
This club hosted Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Liberace, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Now it hosts only mold and a ravens nest.


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When they needed to expand the Pennsylvania Turnpike it was cheaper to reroute some portions of it than to drill a second traffic tube through the mountains ( Read more... )

As we raced this storm that rolled down the mountain out of Flagstaff we stopped at both Twin Arrows and Two Guns. The storm was really moving fast at this point and it overtook us while we were here or I would have run around and taken more pictures ( Read more... )

On 3/4/22 we cleared through Flagstaff as a snowstorm came rolling down the mountain and a huge windstorm was in advance.
Honestly it was pretty epic.
Twin Arrows was super interesting and I am glad we stopped.


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We stopped on our way back to Albuquerque at a few abandoned places.
We checked out the outside of Meteor City - although there were a bunch of cameras outside and it didn't look so abandoned as I had hoped.


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The star of the day was Monument Valley.

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I posted the pics from Lower Antelope Canyon a while back. I booked George and myself into tours of both canyons on the same day.


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Who would ever think that such wonder would be inside here ( Read more... )

From 1869 until 1909 a town called Pahreah was out here. But they put their town in a valley that was prone to flash floods. It used to have a post office and general store and after it was abandoned they filmed westerns in it until it all washed away. The area was so perfect of a setting that they built a new western town movie set a mile away ( Read more... )