North America
Texas City Disaster: Deadliest Industrial Accident in U.S. History
Across the bay from Galveston in Texas is Texas City, a busy port with convenient access to Houston and the Gulf of Mexico. In...
Abandoned Industrial Icon: Armour Meat Packing Plant
The Armour & Company meat packing plant in National City, Illinois is a window into a bygone era, a time capsule with late-19th century...
Overhills: Former Rockefeller Estate Sequestered on Fort Bragg
For more than one hundred years the idyllic Overhills golf and hunt club in the foothills of North Carolina has remained hidden from the public...
Budget Cuts: Detroit Schools
Over the last decade attendance in the Detroit school system has experienced a 50% decline, dropping from over 170,000 students to just 83,000 enrolled....
World’s Largest Super Collider: Abandoned
A supercollider is a large ring designed to accelerate particles of protons and anti-protons until they collide. Its purpose is to create large amounts...
Glenn Dale Hospital: Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Asbestos Asylum
Thirty minutes east of Washington D.C., a collection of brick buildings are deteriorating on a sixty-acre campus buried in a residential pocket of Glenn...