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 I would like to thank Troy Paiva for most all of the links on this page. If you can check out only one site here make it  Lost America : This is where you'll find a collection of night photography of the abandoned roadside west that will leave you breathless.
Our long time favorite Web Site is now a BOOK!
Lost America: The Abandoned Roadside West cover

Dubtown Industriekultur is a German site depicting abandoned factories and industry. It's in German, As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Amazing photography of "Ship Breaking" by Edward Burtynsky. Spectacular location!

 Motelsign.com has some photos of . . . guess.  

The Airchive of Vintage and Scrapped Planes is packed with not the best photography of.....but neat.  Like junk planes? I love things that can or did fly

 Sleeping Giants about the military's aircraft disposal site at Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson. flash animation shows the scale and solitude of this gigantic facillity.

The Photographic Journey of Phillip Buehler  Modren ruins. Familiar objects and technology abandoned,
 nothing is permanent.

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit I felt as if I were on a guided personal tour of old Detroit here. Great site and personable.

Kim Stringfellows wonderful Salton Sea site is a source for the history of one of the West's least known places. A strange and misunderstood place.

Industrial Art. Henk Van Rensbergen's  site of abandoned European factories, hospitals and churches.

Photo Essays of Industrial Age Ruins. Shaun O'Boyles  images of abandoned places and things. Also great travel photography

Lost Indiana is what it name is. Lots of history here.

Lost Nevada Nevada, has recently been in a hurry to relinquish its smoky past of hard liquor, neon and lounge acts to make way for family oriented amusement parks. Someone needs to remember that Golden Age of Lounge and this site does.

 Ghost Town of the Month site. Arizona towns only, but worth a look ane a lot of hard work pot into it by William M. Mogan.

Ghost towns in Canada . Great site with lots of info on Western Canadian ghost towns.


WBL3 Photo. Walter Lockwood's excellent site of photos of desert stuff. One of his projects includes "Silent Wheels" a metaphor for the disintegration of Americana as it exists in pop culture and trends.

Forgotten New York Great images of New York City in decay. Kevin Walshe will show you scenes you'd think you'd never see in New York City

The Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour This site takes you underground for a tour of a decommissioned American Missile base somewhere in the western US Great stuff. Classic abandoned America.

Ghost Town Gallery. German website devoted to American ghost towns. Great site to get lost in.

Ruin Japan is filled with . . . pics of Japanese ruins obviously. Can't read a word on this site. But the locations are sure cool!

Smelter is a Texas based urban explorer site with some nice evocative imagery.

 Photos of the Forgotten is a site with lost places in Southern California.

Abandoned Buildings is a Belgian site dedicated to  abandoned sites in Western Europe.


Car and Road culture Links

Planning a road trip? Check out Roadtrip America Can you really point and click your way to a great roadtrip? With this site I think it can be done.

Visit The International House of Zzyzx In which the mysteries of the universe are explained
And much time can be wasted...(or something like that)

Stuck on Stuckeys is a tribute site to the blue roofed home of the Pecan Log Roll.. I have never had one myself but did eat at a Stuckeys once.

Drive-ins.com The most comprehensive drive-in site on the net. More information than you can ever look at!

Roadside Architecture Society An organization trying to preserve roadside America.

Los Angeles Conservancy. The Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee is a volunteer group formed in 1984 in response to the rapid destruction of a generation of postwar buildings.

The National Historic Route 66 Federation. Good historic website about the Mother Road. Take the offramp into a bygone era. Discover the 2,400 miles of Route 66 and see how America traveled in the 1920's-60's.

In Our Path A very interesting and educational site about the design and construction of the LA freeway system. Lots of great historical photography of this never ending project.

Old Gas Station Collectibles - Primarily Petroliana Everything you could possibly want to know about gas station stuff.

DesertUSA The best place to go to learn about the great American outback.

Out West Newspaper Out West is a quarterly "on-the-road" newspaper founded in 1987 by roving editor/reporter Chuck Woodbury, who spent much of the following 13 years exploring the two-lane highways of the American West searching for stories about whatever he found interesting.

RUMPSVILLE USA A very good Hot Rod site. Rumpsville is the official website of the Father of the T-bucket, Norm Grabowski.

The Peterson Museum LA car museum. One of the best in the country. Great way to kill an afternoon.

HISTORIC POSTMARKART OF ROUTE 66: The only Route 66 Artwork that actually traveled the entire length of Route 66. Home to other Postmarkarts of state regions and Two Lane Highways in America. Excellent Route 66 links section.


Retro Design Links

 A.C. Radebaugh's Cool art site of stuff that I thought the future would look like.




A lot of guys my age have somewhere they can go where they can be alone and have peace and think or tinker around or whatever. Sometimes it’s a club in town or a bowling alley or a bar. More often it’s a place in their own home. Sometimes a basement workshop or a garden shed but usually it’s the garage. You’ll see a guy’s garage and he’ll have an old couch and a tv and a beer fridge in there, It’s a place that’s all his. Where he can do whatever he wants and say whatever he wants and, more importantly, eat and drink whatever he wants. And if there’s a lawnmower lying there in fifty or sixty pieces with no hope of ever being re-assembled, well that’s nobody’s business. Compared to the intimidating environment of the house, with the designer furniture and the fancy drapes and the expensive carpets, the garage is pure comfort and relaxation. Sit anywhere in dirty clothes and put your feet up. You are the master of your environment, instead of vice versa. So to the rest of the family, don’t worry about Dad spending tie out in the garage. You know where he is. You know there’s only so much trouble he can get into. He’s there if you need him. And he will eventually come back into the house a much happier man.