Abandoned things

Hopefully we all look this good when we're old and gray.

The Heinen family heirs in there younger days.

When a house has been abandoned, Joyce Carol Oates writes, you can be sure there’s a sad story.

There’s something so eerie and breathtaking about the places that haven’t seen a human for longer than they can remember. Sadly, in our increasingly urbanized world, there are not many corners left like this.

Fintail taken over by mother nature

Whether it’s a train cemetery in Bolivia or an Art Deco subway station underneath New York, these abandoned places are snapshots of history frozen in time.