Wombat Obscura

Nameless grave markers at a former psychiatric hospital.

Hymnal ready on a Sunday morning in a church where there will be no sermon.

Lonely abandoned houses in Newfoundland, Canada.

Stairwell in a derelict but not abandoned theater.

Meeting room in a shuttered prison.

Common area in a cellblock at a shuttered Pennsylvania prison.

Long-abandoned drydocks at a former shipyard.

Stairs in a long abandoned theater.

Bricks from a neighboring brickyard littler this Hudson River beach. Ruins of the brick factory still stand next door.

The current state of what was once one of the largest rail yards in the northeast United States.

Passage from lobby to seating in a rapidly decaying theater.

Abandoned ferry aground in Maryland.

This lonely log-cabin chapel in a long-abandoned theme part is barely accessible through the encroaching woods.

In coal country, a long-abandoned white bridge reflects the red light from a stream contaminated by metals leaching out of waste coal.

Remains of a 2-century-old cotton mill.

Patient cemetery at a former Connecticut psychiatric hospital.

Inside an abandoned Nebraska farmhouse.

The bleachers in a ball field abandoned long ago because it sits on a toxic waste dump.

The halves of the bricks spell “Hutton” … the name of the brickyard that dumped them in the river decades ago.

Patient cemetery at a former Connecticut psychiatric hospital.

Shell of a former oil pipeline pumping station.

Children's wing of a former West Virginia psychiatric hospital.

Playground at a former tuberculosis sanitarium in Connecticut.

Water flows past an abandoned hydroelectric plant in Ithaca, N.Y.

Abandoned carpet mills in Amsterdam, N.Y.

A skylight provides the only illumination in a cell at the old Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pa.

Long-vacant church in a Nebraska cornfield.

Foggy evening along a canal in Holyoke, Mass.

Patient room at a former West Virginia psychiatric hospital.

Cemetery for the patients who died at a former psychiatric hospital in New Jersey.

Wooden seats in the auditorium at an old school in Pennsylvania.

Boots left behind in a locker room after shutdown of an industrial facility.

Seats in a Massachusetts movie theater, 37 years after the last picture show there.

Classroom in a former school in Pennsylvania.

The unidentified casualties of the Battle of Gettysburg are buried in mass graves at the national cemetery there.

Long-vacant old-time office building in Birmingham, Ala.

Thomas Edison's workshop, preserved as he left it, in the national historic park devoted to him and his work in West Orange, N.J.

Solitary cell in the former prison in Moundsville, W.Va.

Snow blows off the river and into an abandoned textile mill in Amsterdam, N.Y., a few months before its demolition.

Abandoned church in a Nebraska cornfield.

Shattered fluorescent tubes littler the floor of an old textile mill in Amsterdam, N.Y., shortly before its demolition.

Graveyard for residents who died in a New York facility for the mentally handicapped.

Corridor in a long-vacant office building in Birmingham, Ala.

Part of the abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Paint-spattered underside of an abandoned former coal dumper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Post Office steps after dark in Manhattan.

Chapel in a rotting former hospital in eastern New York.

Cattle glean and fertilize a cornfield in eastern Nebraska in winter.

Quartet of gravestones in the cemetery at the old Gowana Psychiatric Hospital cemetery in western New York.

Misplaced grave markers in the cemetery at the old Gowana Psychiatric Hospital cemetery.

Grave markers in the cemetery at the old Gowana Psychiatric Hospital cemetery.

A hotel that was once the best place to stay in Birmingham, Ala. It had been vacant for years when this photo was taken but has since been targeted for renovation and reuse.

A very old abandoned mill in Ilchester, Maryland, soon before it was demolished.

Balcony seats in a Massachusetts movie theater, 37 years after the last show there.

Part of the former Bethlehem Steel complex in Bethlehem. Pa.

Underside of the famous curved railroad viaduct in Rosendale, N.Y.

Display of bottles in Thomas Edison's workshop in West Orange, N.J.

A derelict tugboat in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Bleachers at an abandoned and heavily contaminated Connecticut ballfield.

Stone bowels of an abandoned 19 century paper mill.