31 Comments Posted by Muertos

I wonder when these particular cells were ceased to be used for occupancy by prisoners. It must have been a very long time ago, as I can't imagine cells without flushable toilets would have been permitted by health or safety regulations at any time in the last 50 years at least.

It's depressing to think of who would want to live here, and why they would think they'd have no other choice.

Stunning!

Hope amid darkness and gloom. Amazing, thought-provoking photo.

This doesn't even look real. It's like a set or something. Amazing photo.

I bet a museum or historical society would be interested in those artifacts. If/when this place is ever demolished, those will be some of the few physical traces left of it.

This reminds me of Alcatraz, the iron staircases leading up to the levels of cell blocks. Great picture.

Very bizarre!

One of the best photos in the whole bunch.

It's horrifying and depressing to think of the sad and desperate lives that ended in these crude little chambers.

This looks like the corridor of the crumbling, decaying space station in the original Russian version of the "Solaris" film. Strange that decay and abandonment are so visually and philosophically fascinating.

This picture reminds me of the catacombs beneath Hadrian's Tomb in Rome. Very creepy.

The graffiti almost humanizes what otherwise would be a raw and inhuman scene.

These remind me of concentration camp crematoria. There's a famous picture of Maijdanek that looks very much like this, except there are half-burned corpses inside the chambers.

This is an almost Christ-like image. Your eye easily finds a cross, and the rust looks like blood.