Hough Bakery | Cleveland, OH Sometimes, it’s hard to tell if there’s a way in. Take the Hough Bakery in Cleveland, OH, for example. When Jake and I rolled up to the front of the building — or, at least, the front as Google Maps determined it — I couldn’t figure out where the entrance…

Pass Creek Market / Rock City Pizza & Amusements Curtin, OR It almost doesn’t happen. But then there’s fate. This is a chance encounter. A stumble-upon that requires no research. I don’t take long hours to scrub Instagram comments, private Urbex Facebook groups. …

Central Middle-High School Painter, VA On the way back from a trip to New Hampshire, I made a startling discovery, a revelation substantiated the day when, weeks later, Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the 2020 presidential election. Crossing the Castleton-on-Hudson Bridge, very much under construction, I looked south, down the river towards Beeren Island. Under…

Location: Letchworth Psychiatric Village — Thiells, NY Hi, friend. The ninth episode from the first season of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is available now: Play the link directly above, or click the link below to choose your podcast provider — and if you’re feeling extra generous, I ask you to rate/review/subscribe on Apple Podcasts or…

Location: Sawyerkill Motel — Saugerties, NY Hi, friend. The eighth episode from the first season of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is available now: Play the link directly above, or click the link below to choose your podcast provider — and if you’re feeling extra generous, I ask you to rate/review/subscribe on Apple Podcasts or…

Neuweiler Brewery Allentown, PA My friend Chelsey worked at a bar on the Upper-West Side of — Actually, scratch that. “…a bar on the Upper-West Side” makes it sound a little dingy. More accurately: My friend Chelsey worked at a Michelin Star restaurant on the Upper-West Side of Manhattan. They have a nice bar…

Location: C&D Technologies — Colonie, NY Hi, friend. The seventh episode from the first season of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is available now: Play the link directly above, or click the link below to choose your podcast provider — and if you’re feeling extra generous, I ask you…

Unknown I-10 Gas Station Cactus City, CA She’s the smartest person in the room, at least in my purview. I watch her expand every time we’re together, asking questions about human behavior and personal accountability and pop culture gaffes. Her mind is a portal into a unique vision of the…

Location: Al Tech Specialty Steel Corp. — Colonie, NY Hello hello hello. The sixth episode from the first season of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is available now: Play the link directly above, or click the link below to choose your podcast provider — and if you’re feeling extra…