While still on our northeast tour of the U.S. - today we spend several hours baking in the heat and humidity of Philadelphia...photographin' Eastern State Penitentiary.
While still on our northeast tour of the U.S. - today we spend several hours baking in the heat and humidity of Philadelphia...photographin' Eastern State Penitentiary.
The history on this prison is pretty cool. Check it out here:
Some of America's most notorious criminals were held in the Penitentiary's vaulted, sky-lit cells, including bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone. After 142 years of consecutive use, Eastern State Penitentiary was completely abandoned in 1971, and now stands, a lost world of crumbling cell blocks and empty guard towers.
There is a cool site called abandonedbutnotforgotten dot com that has a ton of these kinds of photos and other urban exploration pics, check it out. I wasted a few hours there the other day and another few earlier today, tons of great stuff.
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