Lotsa Ruins

This past week apparently has been "modern ruins" week at the Daily Mail.

First up,"Haunting images of America's abandoned cities paint picture of nation's forgotten struggles...." This is a potpourri of ghost towns and abandoned buildings from around the U.S.:

Shops sit in neat lines, a pool table waits for the next player and cars queue for their turn at a gas station - but there will be no customers, no patrons and no drivers here.

These haunting images reveal America's abandoned cities, the nation's once bustling communities now dilapidated, cobwebbed and eerily silent.

While they all share the same conclusion, each city has a different story leading to its demise - tales of raging fires, devastating floods or simply overspending during the copper, mercury or gold rushes.

One of the featured buildings:

Fall of a city: The Cook Bank Building in Rhyolite, Nevada was filled with marble staircases and imported stained glass and cost $2.3 million to build in today's money. It is pictured [bottom] in 1908 but just two years later, the town's mines were operating at a loss. It is pictured [top] in 2009

The next article has photos and story about the abandoned "Enchanted Land" theme park in Rio de Janeiro. A couple photos from the story:

It actually doesn't look in too bad of shape....

The third article has photos and bit of information on abandoned railway stations from around the world, including the Michigan Central Depot in Detroit:

 

 Check 'em out.