Abandoned AmericaA hallway in an abandoned tuberculosis hospital. Note that ceilings generally are not supposed to do that.
Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/seaview-tuberculosis-hospital
I don't mean to toot my own toots here, but I absolutely love surreal things in abandoned places and this ceiling/wall is one of my underrated favorites. It was pretty dark in this part and it legit took me a minute or three to figure out wtf I was looking at
Also I had to squeeze between that ceiling and the door to get to the rest of the floor and that did not feel like one of the highlights on the Abandoned America Wise Decisions List, let me tell you
Tilly Bridges@AbandonedAmerica yeah I WAS GONNA SAY! yikes
@tillybridges there are a lot of things I've done that were not in retrospect what I would call "smart"
@AbandonedAmerica I mean, me too, but at least you get great photos out of them! 😬
@tillybridges thank you! Being a fool does pay off sometimes I suppose 😄
Stygian Lizard@AbandonedAmerica "squeezing between the ceiling and door" is not a combination of words I would expect to witness. And yet.
@shadyspotlight such is the strange life I lead 🥰
TransitBiker@AbandonedAmerica it’s disassembling itself.
CaseyLCeiling melting in on itself, Inception style.
Yes, toot your own toot! You're a hardier sort than me. I don't think the crawling and squeezing part would bother me much; it's the lifeforms living in the ruins that would terrify me.
I salute you!
@CaseyL thanks! For the most part I don't run into animals or squatters. Spiders, though, are definitely present.
"For the most part" is doing some heavy lifting there :)
Gavin Volure’s Peanut Butter@AbandonedAmerica big fan of self-retooting here. I would’ve missed this terrific photo if you hadn’t tooted your own toot, so thank you.
@iBlame thank you my friend! My innate tendency to be a bit of a wallflower makes me feel weird about it but I guess I have to start breaking that tendency down if I want to get anywhere
Tim W@AbandonedAmerica you say ceiling, I say wall
@tw one of those happy occurrences where two diverging answers are both technically correct
@AbandonedAmerica the best kind of correct
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦
Frances_Larina 🏳️⚧️Hope the explorers / photographer was wearing a good mask. Not for TB, which likely broke down by the first year, but for asbestos.
@Frances_Larina the explorer is me, and I did not wear a mask because I'm kind of hoping not to get any older than I have to
That I understand. Still, please stay safe as living out your last 10 years in pain is no fun or so I've heard. Also, you bring a sense of...I dunno, historic wonder to your work. It would be a shame for the world to lose it.
@Frances_Larina thank you, Frances - now that I'm officially middle aged I'm more aware than I was in my youth that battering your body does have some really unfortunate consequences. Hopefully we won't be looking at a ton of mesothelioma deaths in the urban exploration community in another 10-20 years.
Roadskater, Ph.D.@AbandonedAmerica Ceiling looking like it's waiting for a loud noise to come down and seriously F up someone's lungs. Which, appropriate.
@roadskater can verify that. It definitely showered me with debris as I went around it
@AbandonedAmerica I hope you were holding your breath.
Calamity Caitlin@AbandonedAmerica Ooh, this is a good one. Inceptiony. 😍😍😍
@squeevening thank you!
Dimples@AbandonedAmerica
This has the look of a painting, almost Rockwell in its composition.
This has the look of a painting, almost Rockwell in its composition.
@AbandonedAmerica meant to say Wyeth, got my New England painters transposed!
@Magooish thanks so much! I love Wyeth, have been to the Brandywine Art Museum which has a ton of his work (in addition to that of his family members, they were pretty amazing too, esp. his father). Hopefully I'm not flattering myself but the one at the top of the page here always reminds me a touch of his work https://www.abandonedamerica.us/abandoned-homes
Wendy MsGator 🐊I suddenly feel claustrophobic.