Harrisburg State Hospital and the Question Nobody Answered
Harrisburg State Hospital, Pennsylvania's first public asylum, has been mostly torn down for a $450 million state lab complex—and taking a harder question with…
Dispatches from the road — personal essays, travel stories, and observations from two decades of exploring America's overlooked corners.
Harrisburg State Hospital, Pennsylvania's first public asylum, has been mostly torn down for a $450 million state lab complex—and taking a harder question with…
A century ago, a stretch of riverfront in Kenova, West Virginia was home to a revolving door of industry, a steel company that collapsed…
A quiet, undetected walk through a hidden Volkswagen graveyard in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, where decades-old Beetles and Buses sit reclaimed by the forest.
While traveling late at night to a campsite in rural northern West Virginia, I did a double-take when I passed what looked like an…
In 2016, I spent a day tracing the remnants of the former Wheeling Terminal Railway across the hills surrounding downtown Wheeling, West Virginia.
On a snow-covered winter afternoon in Washington County, Pennsylvania, I followed rural backroads to document a handful of historic landmarks.
Travel into the snowy hills of northern West Virginia to document early three charcoal iron furnaces.
Driving west along Interstate 74 at sunrise, I caught sight of the trees that once framed Fairland Recreation Park.
Once a booming lead and zinc mining town, Picher, Oklahoma, is now known as one of America’s most toxic ghost towns.
Explore the historic town of Tucumcari, New Mexico, along the legendary U.S. Route 66.
Driving Arizona’s stretch of Route 66, we explored the desert’s forgotten roadside relics.
Fort Wingate’s history is deeply entwined with U.S. efforts to manage, suppress, and later reconcile relations with the Navajo people.