Abandoned Places

That's why you don't explore condemned buildings with tennis shoes.
A rusty nail through the foot hurts and bleeds a lot.

MCS
Detroit, MI

Just north of Salton City is Salton Sea Beach, a small resort spot (Google map/satellite view) with vivid examples of how the unreliable level of the Sea has impacted human activities.

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I did a couple of batches of abandoned places photos; so this might seem a bit disjointed (rather than me doing several separate posts I'll break it up within this one...



This is a shot of the statue stood in, what was presumably the car park for a restaurant (I believe) underneath and next to what was the Waldorf school (The Waldorf school appears to have been a Steiner School; the Bristol Steiner School has moved up to Cotham... incidentally). This whole area's been abandoned since before I came to Bristol - but this area is an example of it being astounding how an huge object can be abandoned and you can completely fail to see it....

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Northampton State Asylum