Location: Lehigh Valley Dairy — Allentown, PA Hi. Season 2 of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast has begun! 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 Spotify: abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake…pod.link

Unknown Cabin Town of Rochester, NY ** Content warning: This story contains what some may consider a gay slur. While referenced as a term of endearment — or, a reinvention of the word — some readers may find it to be offensive. Please take care of your heart. *** I’d like to…

Hey friends! This Thursday: jump into my imagination (virtually) at the North Carolina Museum of History! Can the human imagination serve as a space of healing and serenity as much as it serves as a space of creativity and wonderment? That’s the question I’ll ask the audience at NC Museum…

Delmar Sleepaway Camp Liberty, NY “Get the fuck outta there!” I hold very still. I can hear my breath, shallow, encouraging me to stay grounded and calm. You don’t know who that is. It might not be the cops. It’s probably the caretaker. He’s just doing his job. …

The Pines Hotel South Fallsburg, NY You can listen to the podcast version of this story here. *** Just over 48 hours ago, we lost an abandoned space that was monumental to my growth as an explorer and storyteller.

Mountain Drive-In Theater & Arcade South Fallsburg, NY He was out before the credits even finished. I glanced over at his dusty head, balding and exposed, and I smiled. This is one of the many qualities I inherited from him: I, too, fall asleep pretty easily in the dark of a theater. Despite the fact…

Universal Atlas Cement Plant | Greenport, NY I let you go at the abandoned Universal Atlas Cement Plant. At the time, I didn’t know what the building was, but I knew for certain that, if I could just get through the weeds to the smokestack, I could forgive myself for hurting you. *** Where do I park?

South Centro | Mérida, Mexico The neighborhood is colorful. Dusty, empty, but filled with life, both past and present.

Unknown House | Mérida, Mexico Once upon a time, there was a house on a boulevard on the Yucatan Peninsula on the Planet Earth. Inside lived a man who wore boat shoes, his wife who hosted parties, and their two children who hated socialites. …