The Ruins of the Boonton Ironworks
It was a quiet walk along the Rockaway River in Boonton, New Jersey, but this narrow valley was once bustling with pig iron blast…
Dispatches from the road — personal essays, travel stories, and observations from two decades of exploring America's overlooked corners.
It was a quiet walk along the Rockaway River in Boonton, New Jersey, but this narrow valley was once bustling with pig iron blast…
have long wanted to explore the northern reaches of New Jersey to capture some of its historical sites, particularly its iron furnaces.
Nestled in the heart of Kingston, New York, Rondout Creek once hummed with the activity of a thriving maritime industry. Today, it stands as…
The Maybrook Line of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad provided a crucial east-west freight transportation route between Maybrook, New York, and…
While vacationing in Cape May, New Jersey earlier this year, I stumbled upon the remnants of an old military battery that played a pivotal…
Athol, an 1881 mansion in Baltimore, Maryland, later adapted as a sanitarium and psychiatric hospital, burned on September 27, 2021.
While taking aerial photographs near the Francis Scott Key Bridge close to Baltimore, Maryland, I unexpectedly came across Fort Carroll, a deserted sea fort…
The aptly nicknamed "Granny's House" is an abandoned circa 1840 Colonial-style residence filled with furnishings and antiques in Massachusetts.
Regretfully, the roof of the long-abandoned Church of the Transfiguration in Buffalo, New York collapsed during a storm yesterday.
It's not common to come across an intact county home and farm, but a well preserved and unique example lies tucked away in a…
Have you ever crossed the threshold into a house teetering on the brink of oblivion, its very foundation clinging to life by the narrowest…
After losing my first drone, a GoPro Karma, to a tree and ultimately Tupper Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York over a…