Wombat Obscura

Long-disused Shriners Temple.

Leaky roofs lead to flooded floors in an old factory.

Abandoned Pennsylvania Church, Sunday morning.

Remnants of the library in a former Catholic school left to decay.

Piano in the uppermost floor of an old Shriners temple.

Abandoned, flooded railroad tunnel catches the light of dusk in the sky.

The clock has stopped but time is catching up with this abandoned factory.

Inside a Civil War-era coastal defense fort in Boston Harbor.

Pew in a prairie church.

The chimney of a circa-1800s cement kiln.

Heavily spray-painted gun pit at an abandoned coastal defense fortress.

This former railroad tunnel built in the early 1870s is starting to show its age.

The deck cabin on a partly sunken river barge.

Abandoned cold storage warehouse.

A stream trickles through the mill complex that once tapped it for power.

A long-abandoned rail tunnel with a drainage problem.

Long-idled grain elevator in Buffalo, N.Y.

This old artillery bunker has become a graffiti canvas.

A stream roars through the abandoned mill that once tapped it for power.

Bring grain elevator in Buffalo, N.Y.

A long-abandoned stadium with toxic soil in Newark, N.J.

A large abandoned jailhouse.

Leaky roofs lead to flooded floors in an old factory.

An abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnel that was a location in the movie "The Road."

Inside an old clock tower atop a semivacant mill building in Amsterdam, N.Y.. 

The former Widow Jane cement mine near Kingston, N.Y.

Interior of an improbably grand but mostly vacant shopping arcade in Budapest, Hungary.

Abandoned London vehicle tunnel-turned-art space.

Seen in Teresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp in Terezen, Czech Republic.

Auditorium in a former school building.

Abandoned  church in a Nebraska cornfield.

Auditorium in a former high school in Pennsylvania.

A cell block corridor in the old Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

An upper floor in an abandoned textile mill in Amsterdam, N.Y., later demolished.

Executive suite in a former carpet mill in Amsterdam, N.Y.

Door to an old mill in Holyoke, Mass.

The shell of a large mill complex is swallowed by vines.

Brick tunnel running beneath the old sewage treatment plant in Prague, Czech Republic.

Accommodations at a former Ohio state prison.

Part of the old Bethlehem Steel complex in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The old Wellington Annex, a long abandoned hotel in Albany, N.Y.,  that would be demolished a few months after this photo was taken.

Windows of an abandoned tire factory in Massachusetts.

One of hundreds of cells in a former Ohio state prison.

The old Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey, which hasn't seen trains  in decades.

Hazy windows in the office area of an old mill in Amsterdam, N.Y.

Reflections in standing water in the Widow Jane mine, formerly part of the cement industry in and around Rosendale, N.Y.

Shadows and light in the tuberculosis ward of a former Ohio state prison.

Time-worn urinals in a former high school in Pennsylvania.

Fort Wadsworth, an old granite fortress at the mouth of New York Harbor, now preserved as a landmark.

One of four clocks in a tower on a former mill building in Amsterdam, N.Y.

Corridor at the former prison in Moundsville, West Virginia.

Seen in Teresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp in Terezen, Czech Republic.

Moldy old abandoned carpet mill with rotting wooden floors.

The old Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey, which hasn't seen passengers in decades.

An ironic sign near a derelict building that is the tallest structure in this part of Birmingham, Alabama.

Timeworn gymnasium in a former school building.