this earth is burning under her feet…centralia, pa

A collapsed section of PA Route 61. Centralia, Pennsylvania

centralia, pa is a ghost town in columbia county nestled between different coal mining towns. In 1962, fire had spread underneath the town through the town’s mining tunnels. We were looking for areas where smoke was rising from the earth & ended up walking down the closed section of Pennsylvania route 61 which started to… Continue reading this earth is burning under her feet…centralia, pa

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Ghost Rider 1984 by Charles Albert Szukalski. Goldwell open air museum

I stayed in Beatty, NV while visiting Death Valley. Beatty is around 40 miles from Furnace Creek and is considerably cheaper in terms of accommodation than lodging inside the national park. Near Beatty lies the ghost town of Rhyolite, which was established in 1905 to support the mining efforts during the Gold rush at the… Continue reading R h y o l i t e